Stemonaceae FAMILY
Stemona collinsiae
Stemona collinsiae
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
0/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Stemona collinsiae is at first an erect plant, but as it grows older it becomes a climbing or trailing plant up to 60cm tall. The plant is gathered from the wild as a source of an insecticide.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeSoutheast Asia - Laos, Thailand.
HabitatDry evergreen, dry deciduous and bamboo forest, mixed deciduous scrub and swampy thicket; rugged limestone terrain; at elevations from 25 - 450 metres[ 612 Title Census of Stemona (Stemonaceae) in Thailand Publication Author Inthachub P.; Vajrodaya. S.; Duyfjes B.E.E.E. Website http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/nhn/blumea Publisher Blumea Year 2010 ISBN 10.3767-00065 Description A monograph on the genus Stemona. First published in the publication Blumea, Vol 55, pp 143 - 152, it can be downloaded from the Internet as a PDF file. ].