Maramanjal

Scientific Name :

Coscinium fenestratum (Gaertn.) Colebr.

Synonym(s) :

Menispermum fenestratum Gaertn.

Local/Common name(s) :

Maramanjal

Family :

Menispermaceae

Habit :

Climber

Flowering/Fruiting Time :

August-October

Habitat :

Semi-evergreen and evergreen forests

Endemic :

No

Status (IUCN) :

Endangered (EN)

Distribution :

Indo-Malaysia

Nativity :

Indigenous

Uses :

Medicine

Description (Morphology) :

Woody climbers; wood yellow, branchlets hoary pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate, deltoid , 15-18 x 13-15 cm, ovate, apex acuminate, base truncate, margin entire; 5-7 ribbed; petiole 10-12 cm long. Inflorescence supra-axillary or cauliflorous. Female flowers mostly from old wood. Sepals 6, sericeous. Petals 3; ovary densely pilose, staminodes 6. Fruit of 1or 2 drupes, to 2 cm dia, globose, brown villous, endocarp borny, peduncle to 12 cm; seed 1, black, glabrous.