Hoang Thi Dieu Huong, Pham Thi Mai Huong, Dang Viet Cuong, Nguyen Van Hieu

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Abstract

Though survey of medicinal plant resources in Muong Nhe district, Dien Bien province, Ardisia scalarinervis was recorded as a new species in flora of Vietnam. A. scalarinervis E.Walker was characterized by stems densely reddish stramineous long villous-tomentose, petiole 1-4 cm long, densely blackish or rusty tomentose or villous, glabrous adaxially, sparsely and minutely puberulent abaxially, inflorescences ca. 3 cm long, pedicel ca. 1.5 cm long. A. scalarinervis was also used in folk medicine as the others in genus Ardisia.