Stixis obtusifolia

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Stixis obtusifolia
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Kingdom: Plantae
Clade: Tracheophytes
Clade: Angiosperms
Clade: Eudicots
Clade: Rosids
Order: Brassicales
Family: Resedaceae
Genus: Stixis
Species:
S. obtusifolia
Binomial name
Stixis obtusifolia
(Hook.f. & Thomson) Baill.
Synonyms [1]
  • Roydsia obtusifoliaHook.f. & Thomson
  • Stixis harmandianaPierre

Stixis obtusifolia is a shrub or liana in the Resedaceae family. It is found in parts of Southeast Asia. The wood is used as fuel, the leaves as a tea.

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Description

This species grows as a deciduous shrub or liana. [2] [3] It has silvery stems and branches. Leaves are simple, the adult leaves are glabrous, though occasionally with a few hairs on the nerves. [4] The gynophore is shorter than 5mm and hairy, the ovary is glabrous.

Flowering occurs from November to March, fruiting from January to April. [3]

Distribution

This Southeast Asian species grows in the following countries: Cambodia, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar. [1]

Habitat, ecology

The plant grows in degraded formations. [2]

In the vegetation communities alongside the Mekong in Kratie and Steung Treng Provinces, Cambodia, this taxa is rare in the degraded areas of the riverine community. [3] It grows on soils derived from metamorphic sandstone bedrock, at 20-25m altitude.

Vernacular names

Aw krâpë (av kraboe, ao krâpoeu) (aw="skin", krâpë="crocodile", Khmer) is a name used in Cambodia. [2] [5]

Uses

The wood furnishes firewood. [2] The leaves can give a tea-like drink

History

Henri Ernest Baillon (1827–95), a French botanist and physician, described the species in 1887 in the journal Bulletin Mensuel de la Société Linnéenne de Paris (Paris). [6]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Stixis obtusifolia (Hook.f. & Thomson) Baill". Plants of the World Online (POWO). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Pauline Dy Phon (2000). Plants Utilised In Cambodia/Plantes utilisées au Cambodge. Phnom Penh: Imprimerie Olympic. pp. 14, 15.
  3. 1 2 3 Maxwell, James F. (2009). "Vegetation and vascular flora of the Mekong River, Kratie and Steung Treng Provinces, Cambodia" (PDF). Maejo International Journal of Science and Technology. 3 (1): 143–211. ISSN   1905-7873 . Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  4. Shen, Jian-Yong; Landrein, Sven; Wang, Wen-Guang; Ma, Xing-Da; Shi, Ji-Pu (2020). "Stixis villiflora, a new species of Resedaceae from Yunnan, China" (PDF). Taiwania. 65 (1): 10‒14. doi:10.6165/tai.2020.65.10 . Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  5. Lewitz, S.; Rollet, B. (1973). "Lexique des noms d'arbres et d'arbustes du Cambodge". Bulletin de l'École française d'Extrême-Orient. 60: 117–62. doi:10.3406/befeo.1973.5144 . Retrieved 23 April 2020.
  6. "Stixis obtusifolia Baill., Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Paris i. (1887) 654". International Plant Name Index (IPNI). The Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 4 February 2021.