Gynura crepidioides

(Hidayat & Abuddrahman, 2017)

Kigdom           : Plantae

Phylum            : Tracheophyta

Classis             : Magnoliopsida         

Ordo                : Asterales

Familia            : Asteraceae

Genus              : Gynura 

Species            : Gynura crepidioides 


Local Name

(Hidayat & Abuddrahman, 2017)

Sintrong

Synonym(s)
Crassocephalum crepidioides



Description

Annual herb 25–120(–150) cm tall, rarely a short-lived perennial; stems erect, green, often flecked with dull purplish-red, pubescent. Leaves sessile, obovate, broadly elliptic, rhombic or ovate, unlobed or pinnato-lyrately 2–8-lobed, 5–26 cm long, 2–10 cm wide, cuneate or attenuate and slightly decurrent onto an exauriculate petioloid base, margins usually coarsely and sometimes irregularly sinuate-serrate or sinuate-serrato-bidentate, apex obtuse to acute, pilose-setulose, sometimes with purplish margins or purplish-tinged beneath especially on main veins. Capitula few to numerous in dense to fairly lax terminal corymbs, discoid, drooping in bud and at anthesis, becoming erect in flower and fruit; stalks of the individual capitula pubescent; involucre cylindrical or ± so above a somewhat bulging base, 9–13.5 mm long, 3–5 mm in diameter; bracts of calyculus 6–21, purplish or blackish with darker tips, 2–6 mm long, scattered-pubescent or at least ciliate; phyllaries 13–21, usually 21 or less frequently 13, yellow-green or green with purplish or blackish tips, 8–12.5 mm long, scattered-setulose, or rarely glabrous. Ray florets 0; disc florets many, with orange-red or brick-red, rarely yellow corolla-lobes and red style-arms, tube often yellow, corolla 7–12 mm long, glabrous, slender, gradually expanded in upper third, lobes 0.5–1 mm long. Achenes 1.8–2.7 mm long, ribbed, shortly hairy between the ribs; pappus 7–13 mm long.

(Hidayat & Abuddrahman, 2017)

(Hidayat & Abuddrahman, 2017)

Native to much of Africa. In tropical Asia, found in the Indian subcontinent (Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka), Indo-China (Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam) and Malesia (Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, and the Philippines)

(Hidayat & Abuddrahman, 2017)

Benefit

Wound healing, anti-diarrheal. Studies have shown anti-tumor, antioxidant, antidiabetic, hepatoprotective, radical scavenging properties

Location in UPI
UPI BAAK, Dormitory UPI, FPBS UPI.