Zone | Traditional Salads |
Reference Id | ACP0154 |
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Persicaria hydropiper L.
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Family Name | Polyganaceae |
Local Name | Laksa Plant |
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Traditional Usage | Fresh salad, flavour, essential oil, anti-aging |
Description | Morphology: Slender herb to 30 cm tall. Small leaves, opposite, apex acute and toothed margin. Leaves aromatic.
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Ecology Distribution | Best growth on the wet places. Widely distributed in Malay Peninsula such as Perak, Pahang and Selangor.
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Conservation Status | Least Concerned |
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Zone | Herbs |
Reference Id | ACP0153 |
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Pisonia grandis R.Br.
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Family Name | Nyctaginaceae |
Local Name | Lettuce Tree, Moonlight Tree |
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Traditional Usage | Fresh salad |
Description | Morphology: Tree or shrub with fiscid fruits. Leaves compound, apex acute and toothed margin.
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Ecology Distribution | Found throughout the tropics. Growth wildly on the coast of Malay Peninsula.
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Conservation Status | Least Concerned |
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Zone | Herbs |
Reference Id | ACP0049 |
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Polyalthia bullata King
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Family Name | Annonaceae |
Local Name | Tongkat Ali Hitam |
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Traditional Usage | Tonic, body pain, fever |
Description | Morphology: Shrub about 2-3m tall. Leaves coriaceous bullate, narrowly oblong with ear at the base in cordate shape. Young twigs golden hairy. Apex acuminate, chartaceous, midrib sunken above. Secondary veins prominent, with raised upper surface, sessile. Flower 2 cm long in axillary, solitary or terminal, sepals 3, lanceolate and pubescent. Petal subequal and pubescent with numerous stamens. Fruit with 2 seed. |
Ecology Distribution | Lowland forest commonly in Perak, Pahang, Selangor, Negeri Sembilan, Melaka, Johor and Siam. |
Conservation Status | Least Concerned |
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Zone | Herbs |
Reference Id | ACP0075 |
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Pedilanthus titymaloides (L.) Poit.
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Family Name | Rutaceae |
Local Name | Devils Backbone, Zig Zag |
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Traditional Usage | Swollen, boil, broken bones of the body |
Description | Morphology: Half shrubby or succulent plant. Main stem light green. The leaves opposites, with toothed margin. The apex acuminate.
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Ecology Distribution | Natives of tropical America and West Indies. Cultivated to Asia and Malaysia |
Conservation Status | Least Concerned |
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Zone | Herbs |
Reference Id | ACP0096 |
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Peliosanthes teta Andrews ssp. teta
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Family Name | Convallariceae |
Local Name | Bujang Hilir, Derhaka Mertua |
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Traditional Usage | After childbirth |
Description | Morphology: Stemless herbs with short rhizome, up to 50 cm tall, slightly compressed. Leaf blade lanceolate to elliptic, apex acute to acuminate. Inflorescen a reduced panicle, bracts lanceolate. Flowers in clusters. Perianth yellowish purple, lobes oblong to ovate. Style short and stigma capitate.
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Ecology Distribution | Found in India, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar and Thailand. Best growth on lowland and motane forest. |
Conservation Status | Least Concerned |
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Zone | Herbs |
Reference Id | ACP0111 |
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Pereskia grandifolia Haw.
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Family Name | Cactaceae |
Local Name | Jarum Tujuh Bilah, Jarum Tujuh |
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Traditional Usage | Cancer, headache, diabetes, high blood pressure |
Description | Morphology: Shrub or small tree, 2-5 meters high, grayish-brown trunk up to 20 cm in diameter. The leaves vary in size from 9-23 cm long, entire, elliptic to ovate and obovate-lanceolate. The dense inflorescence, usually with 10-15 flowers, but sometimes with 30 or more. The flowers are showy and rose-like, 3-5 cm in diameter.
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Ecology Distribution | Native to eastern Brazil but widely cultivated in the tropical America.
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Conservation Status | Least Concerned |
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Zone | Herbs |
Reference Id | ACP0113 |
Species Name |
Plantago major L.
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Family Name | Plantaginaceae |
Local Name | Ekor anjing, Ekor angin |
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Traditional Usage | Fever, small injuries |
Description | Morphology: Herb, leaves ovate obtuse, 5-20 cm long, 2.5-10 cm width. Spike 7.5-15 cm long at the peduncle. Flowers numerous with 0.5 cm calyx. Corolla 2 cm long and ovoid capsule with 4 to 8 seeds.
Ecological distribution: Found wildly throughout the whole of Europe and Asia.
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Conservation Status | Least Concerned |
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Zone | Herbs |
Reference Id | ACP0116 |
Species Name |
Pereskia bloe DC.
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Family Name | Cactaceae |
Local Name | Rose cactus |
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Traditional Usage | Cancer, headache, diabetes, high blood pressure |
Description | Morphology: Plant shrubby or small tree like, 2-8 m tall, smooth, olive green to brownish gray, sometimes without spines. Leaves elliptical to oblong to lance shaped, 6-20 cm long, petioles distinct and to 3 cm long, venation pinnate, lateral veins 4-6 and often bifurcate. Spines as many as 40 on trunks, 2 cm long in cluster to spreading.
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Ecology Distribution | Distributed in Panama and Colombia, especially along stream and rivers and secondary forest. |
Conservation Status | Least Concerned |
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