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Growth Form: Small trees or shrubs, 3 - 10 m tall when mature.
 

Foliage: Leaves opposite and glossy, blades membraneous, elliptic to elliptic-ovate and glabrous, petioles stout, stipules connate or distinct.
 

Flowers: Flowers perfect, about 75 - 90 in ovoid to globose heads.
 

Fruits: Fruits are yellowish-white, fleshy, soft and fetid when ripe.

Morinda citrifolia L.

Taxonomic classification

Kingdom: Plantae

   Phylum: Tracheophyta

      Class: Magnoliopsida

         Order: Rubiales

            Family: Rubiaceae

               Genus: Morinda

                  Species: Morinda citrifolia L.

Discription

Common name: Mengkudu

Family: Rubiaceae

Habitat

Terrestrial (Secondary Rainforest; Monsoon Forest; Coastal Forest), Shoreline

Habit

Small tree or shrub

Ethnobotanical uses

Medicinal uses:

Leaves - to treat coughs nausea, colic and enlarged spleen.

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