Stixis obtusifolia

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.

Stixis obtusifolia
Scientific classification
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 obtusifolia Hook.f. & Thomson
  • Stixis harmandiana Pierre

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]

Further reading
  • Dy Phon, P. (2000). Dictionnaire des plantes utilisées au Cambodge: 1-915. chez l'auteur, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
  • T. Smitinand & K. Larsen, eds. (1987). Flora of Thailand 5: 1-470. The Forest Herbarium, Royal Forest Department.

References
  1. "Stixis obtusifolia (Hook.f. & Thomson) Baill". Plants of the World Online (POWO). Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Retrieved 4 February 2021.
  2. Pauline Dy Phon (2000). Plants Utilised In Cambodia/Plantes utilisées au Cambodge. Phnom Penh: Imprimerie Olympic. pp. 14, 15.
  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.
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