- Authors:
- Mansueto, Josel B, Sia,Isidro C, de la Pena, Mario
- Title:
- Documentation of Philippine Traditional Knowledge and Practices on Health and Development of Traditional Knowledge Digital Library on Health - FOLK HEALING PRACTICES of SIQUIJOR ISLAND
- Source:
- Keywords:
- Family:
- Lythraceae
- Field_number:
- Herbarium_number:
- Geographic_area_of_collection:
- Siquijor Province, Siquijor, Barangay Cantabon
- Habitat:
- Lowland area
- Latitude_longitude:
- Altitude:
- 472 m
- Habit:
- A deciduous tropical flowering tree
- Height:
- 10 to 20 meters high
- Roots:
- Stem:
- Leaves:
- Smooth, large, spatulate, oblong to elliptic-ovate, 4 to 8 centimeters in width, 12 to 25 centimeters in length, shedding its leaves the first months of the year.
- Inflouresence_and_flowers:
- 6-parted, purplish lilac or mauve-pink, rarely pink, 5 to 7.5 centimeters across, and borne in large, terminal panicles up to 40 centimeters in length
- Fruits:
- A large nutlike capsule, obovoid or ellipsoid, and 2 to 3.5 centimeters long.
- Seeds:
- Pale brown, with a wing 12 to 18 millimeters long.
- Additional_info:
- Collected_by:
- Date_collected:
- Specimen_voucher_identified_by:
- Date_identified:
- Specimen_voucher_kept_at:
- Abstracted_by:
- Ando, JKA
- Date_abstracted:
- 29/03/2015
- Province:
- Siquijor
