(Arecaceae) Arenga caudata (Lour.) H.E.Moore

Local name(s): (tao kai noy)

Medicinal use(s): Treat fever with rash.

Part(s) used: root

Field Characters: Small shrub, leaflets narrowly obtriangular, caudate at apex. Forest floor.

Locality: Savannakhet Province, Kaysone district, Medicinal Biodiversity Preserve, at 19 km from city center on road Kaysone-Seno.

Habitat: Broadleaved evergreen, lowland tropical rain forest in regeneration from some degree of past conversion.

Altitude: 158 m asl 

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

Collection number(s): DDS 14926

Collection Date: December 17, 2013

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Local name(s): ຕາວ ຫ້າງ ນ້ອຍ  (tao hang noy)

Medicinal use(s): treats boils and rashes

Part(s) used: root and stem near root

Field Characters: Shrub on forest floor, fruits ellipsoid with a blunt apex, one side greenish white, the other side greenish purple.

Locality: Bolikhamxay Province, Paksan District, Somsavath Village, Medicinal Plant Preserve, at 20 km from Paksan City center.

Habitat: Secondary forest. Remnants of broadleaved evergreen, lowland tropical rain forest, in regeneration from past conversion process.

Altitude: 190 m asl 

Collector(s): D.D. Soejarto & O. Souliya. 

Collection number(s): DDS 15011

Collection Date: May 24, 2014

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Useful references:

Henkin JM, Sydara K, Xayvue M, et al. Revisiting the linkage between ethnomedical use and development of new medicines: A novel plant collection strategy towards the discovery of anticancer agents. J Med Plant Res 2017, 11(40):621-634.  https://doi.org/10.5897/JMPR2017.6485 

Li F, Huo J, Zhuang Y, et al. Anti-nociceptive and anti-inflammatory effects of the ethanol extract of Arenga pinnata (Wurmb) Merr. fruit. Journal of Ethnopharmacology 2020, volume 248, 112349. ISSN 0378-8741. DOI: 10.1016/j.jep.2019.112349

Pillai AR, Riyas CT , Sabu KK., et al. A review on the unexplored and underutilized Arenga species in India. Current Botany 2020, 11: 226-232