Gnetaceae FAMILY Least Concern

Gnetum tenuifolium

Edibility

2/5

Medicinal

2/5

Safety & Hazards

None known

Botanical Description

Gnetum tenuifolium is a slender, evergreen climbing plant with woody, twining stems[ 310 Title Plant Resources of Southeast Asia Publication Author Website http://proseanet.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description Lots of information on the uses of the plants of SE Asia. ]. The plant is harvested from the wild for local use as a food and medicine. The major threat to this species is habitat loss through forest clearing for conversion mainly to rubber and oil palm plantations and rice fields. Especially on the Malay Peninsula lowland forests are highly threatened and only a fifth of the original forest remains and is scattered in fragments over the country. The plant is classified as 'Least Concern' in the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species(2013)[ 338 Title IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Publication Author Website http://www.iucnredlist.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat. ].

Habitat & Origin

Origintropical

Native RangeSoutheast sia - Peninsular Thailand, Malaysia, Indonesia (Sumatra)

HabitatRain forests at low elevations[ 451 Title Flora Malesiana Series 1 Publication Author Various Website http://www.archive.org Publisher Nationaal Herbarium Nederiand, Universiteit Leiden branch Year 0 ISBN Description A massive treatment of the plants of the Malaysian Archipelago. Much of it has been made available to download from the Internet ]. Occasionally found in secondary forests and overgrown plantations[ 338 Title IUCN Red List of Threatened Species Publication Author Website http://www.iucnredlist.org/ Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description A list of plants under threat and facing possible extinction, usually with brief details of the threats and information on habitat. ].