(Achariaceae) Hydnocarpus kurzii (King) Warb.

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Field Characters: Small tree 4-5 m in height; 10 cm dbh; leaves glabrous, flowers white with long stamens.

Locality: Sekong Province, Thateng District, Pa Leng Tai Village, Sekong MBP Thateng.

Habitat: Hillside, soil dry, partial shade.

Altitude: 580 m asl 

Collector(s): B. Elkington, M. Xayvue, S. Setthavanxay 

Collection number(s): BGE 260

Collection Date: November 18, 2019

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Voucher specimen is in deposit at the Field Museum (F) Herbarium, Chicago, USA under accession no. 2330414.

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Bi J-y. Pharmacology and chemical constituents of Hydnocarpus anthelmintica, Pierre: A review. Phytomedicine Plus 2024, volume 4, issue 4, 100545. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.phyplu.2024.100545

Sahoo MR, Dhanabal SP, Jadhav AN, et al. Hydnocarpus: An ethnopharmacological, phytochemical and pharmacological review. J Ethnopharmacol. 2014 May 28;154(1):17-25. doi: 10.1016/j.jep.2014.03.029. Epub 2014 Apr 13. PMID: 24732111. Corpus ID: 40745121 https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:40745121

Useful Tropical Plants. Hydnocarpus kurzii (King) Warb. 2022-07-20.  https://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Hydnocarpus+kurzii.