''Chisocheton erythrocarpus'' is a tree in the family ''

Meliaceae Meliaceae, the mahogany family, is a flowering plant family of mostly trees and shrubs (and a few herbaceous plants, mangroves) in the order Sapindales. They are characterised by alternate, usually pinnate leaves without stipules, and by syncarp ...

''. The

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' is from the

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meaning 'red-fruited'.

Description

The tree grows up to tall with a trunk diameter of up to . The bark is dark grey to chocolate brown. The flowers are creamy-white. The fruits are round, yellow (blood-red when ripe), up to in diameter.

Distribution and habitat

''Chisocheton erythrocarpus'' is found in

Peninsular Malaysia Peninsular Malaysia, historically known as Malaya and also known as West Malaysia or the Malaysian Peninsula, is the western part of Malaysia that comprises the southern part of the Malay Peninsula on Mainland Southeast Asia and the list of isla ...

Borneo Borneo () is the List of islands by area, third-largest island in the world, with an area of , and population of 23,053,723 (2020 national censuses). Situated at the geographic centre of Maritime Southeast Asia, it is one of the Greater Sunda ...

and the

Philippines The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an Archipelagic state, archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. Located in the western Pacific Ocean, it consists of List of islands of the Philippines, 7,641 islands, with a tot ...

. The habitat is coastal forest.

Phytochemicals

Eight previously unknown limonoids were identified via

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in the fruits of ''C. erythrocarpus'' gathered in Malaysia. These compounds were dubbed erythrocarpines after the species epithet. The same study tested several preparations of ''C. erythrocarpus'' extract as larvicidal agent against ''

Aedes aegypti ''Aedes aegypti'' ( or from Greek 'hateful' and from Latin, meaning 'of Egypt'), sometimes called the Egyptian mosquito, dengue mosquito or yellow fever mosquito, is a mosquito that spreads diseases like dengue fever, yellow fever, malar ...

'' mosquitoes; they found that 1000 ppm DCM extract resulted in 100% mortality of larva 24 hours after exposure.

References

erythrocarpus Plants described in 1875 Trees of Peninsular Malaysia Trees of the Philippines Trees of Borneo Taxa named by William Philip Hiern {{rosid-tree-stub