Rambai

Rambai

Baccaureae motleyana

Keluarga : Euphorbiaceae

Genera : Baccaurea

Nama Saintifik : Baccaureae motleyana

Nama Tempatan :

Rambai, Bua trai, Pekang, Rambai, Ramei, Ulup lavae.

Asal-usul dan Taburan :

Semenanjung Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Moluccas.

Deskripsi Tumbuhan :

Pokok rambai mempunyai ketinggian 8-26m, mempunyai akar yang keras dan timbul di permukaan tanah dan akarnya juga bercabang. Kulit kayunya berwarna coklat kemerahan atau coklat kekuningan. Daunnya bersaiz 23-84mm panjang dan berbulu. Warna daunnya akan bertukar coklat kekelabuan apabila kering. Bunganya di dalam jambangan dan berwarna hijau kekuningan. Buahnya berwarna kuning dan isinya berwarna putih dengan 2-3 segment untuk setiap buah. Bijinya bersaiz kecil berwarna coklat kehijauan dan rasanya pahit.

Kegunaan :

-Buahnya boleh dimakan begitu sahaja.

-Getah dari batangnya boleh digunakan sebagai ubat untuk penyakit mata.

*penggunaan tumbuhan ini sebagai ubatan bergantung kepada kesesuaian individu dan saranan daripada pengamal perubatan amatlah digalakkan.

Family: Euphorbiaceae

Genus: Baccaurea

Scientific name: Baccaureae motleyana

Vernacular name:

Rambai, Bua trai, Pekang, Rambai, Ramei, Ulup lavae.

Origin and distribution:

Peninsular Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Java, Borneo, Moluccas.  

Plant description:

Tree 8-26 m high, dbh 13-61 cm, buttresses short; branchlets densely hairy, Terminalia branching pattern weakly developed. Indumentum of simple hairs. Bark brown to red-brown to yellowish when fresh, thin, soft, scaly to flaky; inner bark cream, turning slightly reddish, hard. Leaves: petiole 23-84 mm long, densely hairy to velutinous, brown-grey when dry, raised glands absent; stipules 5-10 by 1.5-3.5 mm, glabrous to sparsely hairy outside, glabrous inside, midrib velutinous outside, margin ciliate, hya-line or not; lamina elliptic to obovate, 13.5-37 by 5.2-15 cm, l/w ratio 1.9-2.5, papery: base rounded to usually narrowly cordate; apex acute cuspidate, (0-)7-22 mm long; upper surface glabrous, not granulate, (dark) green when fresh, brown to green to grey when dry; lower surface densely hairy to sparsely hairy, midrib and secondary veins velutinous, raised glands absent, discoid glands absent, (dark) green when fresh, brown to green when dry; secondary veins 10-17 per side, open at margin; nervation scalariform; young leaves black when dry. Staminate inflorescences cauline to axillary, solitary to 5 clustered together, 2.5-24 cm long, up to 1.5 mm thick, velutinous, many- flowered, flowers scattered along inflorescence, greenish yellow; bracts persistent, elliptic, 1-2.5 mm long, 3 per branchlet, glabrous outside and inside, densely hairy at base inside, margin ciliate, not hyaline; bracteoles absent; branchlets absent to present, cylindrical, 0-3 mm long, densely hairy, 3-flowered. Staminate flowers 2-3 mm diam., green to yellow; pedicel 1.6-2.3 mm long, upper part 0.6-1.6 mm long, densely hairy; sepals 4 or 5, ovate, 0.7-1.4 by 0.5-1.4 mm, usually recurved, densely hairy outside and inside; stamens 5-10, 0.4-0.6 mm long, glabrous; ?laments 0.4-0.6 mm long, geniculate to straight; anthers c. 0.1 by 0.2 by 0.1 mm; disc present, c. 0.1 mm thick; pistillode obtriangular, 0.4-0.5 mm high, velutinous, hollow. Pistillate inflorescences ramiflorous to cauline, solitary to 5 clustered together, 13-42 cm long, 1-2.5 mm thick, velutinous, more than 30-flowered, greenish yellow; pedicel 2-5.5 mm long, upper part 0.2-1 mm long, densely hairy to velutinous; bracts 3 per branchlet, persistent, velutinous outside, glabrous to densely hairy inside, margin ciliate. Pistillate flowers 4-10 mm diam., green to yellow; sepals 4 or 5, ovate, 4-8 by 1.5-3.5 mm, densely hairy outside and inside, persistent; ovary globose, 1.6-2.6 by 1.7-2.9 mm, 3-locular, velutinous; style 0-0.4 by 0.8-1.2 mm wide, velutinous; stigmas 0.5-1 mm long, glabrous above and below, persistent. Fruits globose to ellipsoid, 3-seeded berries, 22-45 by 15-25 by c. 25 mm, raised glands present, glabrous to densely hairy outside, glabrous inside, greenish yellow to white; pericarp 0.5-1.5 mm thick; column 18-23 mm long, straight, caducous; pedicel 4-10 mm long, upper part 1-2 mm long. Seeds ellipsoid, laterally flattened, 13-20 by 9-14.5 by 2.5-4 mm; arillode translucent white to rarely purple; cotyledons 5-9 by 5-9 by c. 0.1 mm; radicle 2-3 mm long.

Uses:

-The fruits are edible. Trees are often cultivated in forest gardens or within villages.

-Sap from the stem is used as a medicine against sore-eyes.