Rutaceae FAMILY
Harrisonia brownii
Harrisonia brownii
Edibility
0/5
Medicinal
2/5
Safety & Hazards
None known
Botanical Description
Harrisonia brownii is a sprawling to erect shrub that sometimes becomes a tree up to 4 metres tall[ 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 medicine.
Habitat & Origin
Origintropical
Native RangeE. Asia - drier areas from the Andamans through southern Asia to New Guinea and northern Australia.
HabitatAn understory plant in monsoon forest and vine thickets in northern Australia[ 713 Title Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants Publication Author Website http://www.anbg.gov.au/cpbr/cd-keys/rfk/index.html Publisher Year 0 ISBN Description An online resource giving botanical information, and a little bit about plant usage, for over 2,700 species of plants found in the Australian rainforest. ]. Common in scrub, especially at the margins, in New Guinea[ 481 Title Medicinal Plants in Papua New Guinea Publication Author Publisher World Health Organisation Year 2009 ISBN 978-92-9061-249-0 Description Traditional medicinal uses of 126 species from Papua New Guinea, including information on modern research into the plants. ].