(Oleaceae) Ligustrum sinense Lour. 

Local name(s):  ກໍ ຫັດ (koh hat)

Medicinal use(s): treat dermatological disorders; fungal infection

Part(s) used: stem

Field characters: Shrub or small plant, about 1 m high, stem erect, much branched. Leaves opposite, tomentose. Inflorescence terminal, cyme white. Fruits globose darkish violet when ripe.

Locality: Xieng Khoang Province, Kham District, Khen Jong Village.

Habitat: Growing on the slope of the mountain.

Altitude:  m asl.

Collector(s): K. Konsawanh

Collection number(s): LAOS_704

Collection date: May 16, 2005.

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Local name(s):  ກໍ ຫັດ (koh hat)

Medicinal use(s): to treat dermatological disorders

Part(s) used: stem

Field characters: Treelet 2 m high. Leaves simple, opposite, hairs golden-tawny, fruits rounded, green.

Locality: Xieng Khoang Province, Kham District, Tha Village.

Habitat: 

Altitude:  m asl.

Collector(s): K. Sydara, O. Souliya

Collection number(s): LAOS_855

Collection date: October 25, 2006.

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Local name(s):  ກໍ ຫັດ (koh hat)

Medicinal use(s): given as a women’s tonic following birth and also used to stimulate lactation.

Part(s) used: root

Field characters: Treelet 3 m tall, flowers white, young fruits green. Not common.

Locality: Xieng Khoang Province, Kham District, Kham Medicinal Biodiversity Preserve, 15 km from Kham town.

Habitat: Broadleaved evergreen submontane forest. Edge of forest along road.

Altitude: 1130 m asl

Collector(s): D.D. Soejarto, K. Sydara, M. Xayvue

Collection number(s): DDS 14959

Collection date: May 16, 2014.

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Local name(s):  ກໍ ຫັດ (kok hat)

Medicinal use(s): given as a women’s tonic following birth and also used to stimulate lactation.

Part(s) used: root

Field characters: Large multi-stemmed shrub, leaves opposite, ovate, acute, with prominent midvein.

Locality: Xieng Khoang Province, Kham District, Xieng Khoang Medicinal Biodiversity Preserve, forest on the other side of the small valley behind the lone huse with the animal pen, off the mountain road between Muang Kham and Ban Tha.

Habitat: Roadside. Good quallity secondary tropical rainforest, on a mountain slope.

Altitude: 1137 m asl.

Collector(s): J.M. Henkin, K. Sydara, M. Xayvue, D.D. Soejarto

Collection number(s): JMH 043

Collection date: December 11, 2015

Additional data:  

Voucher specimen is in deposit at the Field Museum (F) Herbarium, Chicago, USA, under accession no. 2318619. 

    Project: PO1

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