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Malayan urn vine (Dischidia major)

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Malayan urn vine (Dischidia major) is a species of plant in the Apocynaceae, grows vines, twines around tree branches and trunks, roots penetrate rotting wood and humus, circular succulent leaves up to 3 cm wide. The hollow pouch is elongated and up to 12 cm long. The sac is filled with many stomata on the inner surface and has an opening at the upper end near the stalk.



Organic debris and rainwater may be supplemented with secreted fluids to accumulate in the cavity of the bag and over time provide a source of nutrients that the plant uses by growing roots indoors. The main flower is yellow and striped with green. The fruit consists of a pair of horn-shaped follicles. The seeds have fine hairs at one end.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Gentianales
Family: Apocynaceae
Subfamily: Asclepiadoideae
Tribe: Marsdenieae
Genus: Dischidia R.Br. in Prodr. Fl. Nov. Holland.: 461 (1810)
Species: Dischidia major (Vahl) Merr. in Interpr. Herb. Amboin.: 437 (1917)

HOMOTYPIC SYNONYMS

Collyris major Vahl in Skr. Naturhist.-Selsk. 6: 110 (1810)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Dischidia baeuerlenii Schltr. in Beibl. Bot. Jahrb. Syst. 92: 7 (1908)
Dischidia clavata Wall. in Pl. Asiat. Rar. 2: 36 (1831)
Dischidia merguiensis Becc. in Malesia 2: 266 (1886)
Dischidia pubiflora Schltr. in Beih. Bot. Centralbl., Abt. 2. 34: 11 (1916)
Dischidia rafflesiana Wall. (1831)
Dischidia singaporensis Ridl. in J. Straits Branch Roy. Asiat. Soc. 61: 31 (1912)
Dischidia timorensis Decne. in Nouv. Ann. Mus. Hist. Nat. 3: 377 (1834)
Dischidia viridescens Griff. in Not. Pl. Asiat. 4: 49 (1854)

PUBLICATIONS

Ahmed, Z.U. & al. (eds.) (2008). Encyclopedia of Flora and Fauna of Bangladesh 6: 1-408. Asiatic Society of Bangladesh.

Dy Phon, P. (2000). Dictionnaire des plantes utilisées au Cambodge: 1-915. Chez l'auteur, Phnom Penh, Cambodia.

Govaerts, R. (2000). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS Genera starting with letter D: 1-30141.

Jagtap, A.P. & Singh, N.P. (1999). Fascicles of Flora of India 24: 1-332. Botanical Survey of India, New Delhi.

Karthigeyan, K., Pandey, R.P. & Mao, A.A. (eds.) (2023). Flora of Andaman and Nicobar Islands 2: 1-689. Botanical Survey of India. Ministry of environment, forest and climate change.

Kress, W.J., DeFilipps, R.A., Farr, E. & Kyi, D.Y.Y. (2003). A Checklist of the Trees, Shrubs, Herbs and Climbers of Myanmar. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 45: 1-590.

Orchard, A.E. (ed.) (1996). Flora of Australia 28: 1-335. Australian Government Publishing Service, Canberra.

Trần, T.B. (2017). Thực Vật Chí Việt Nam. Flora of Vietnam 15: 1-482. Nhà xuất bản khoa học và kỹ thuật, Hà Nội

VERNACULAR NAME

Chinese (Simplified): 大王眼树莲
Chinese (Traditional): 大王眼樹蓮 - 青蛙寶
English: Malayan Urn Vine, Raffles' Dischidia
Finnish: Isopussiköynnös
Indonesian: Sarang Semut, Anggur Malaya, Guci Malaya
Japanese: アケビカズラ
Russian: Дисхидия большая
Slovak: Urnovka väčšia
Thai: บวบลม (จุกโรหินี)

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