University of Illinois at Chicago 
PLANTS OF JAVA 
MARANTACEAE 
Phrynium capitatum Willd. 
Det. By: A. McDonald, January 5, 1993 
Field Char: Herb ca. 1.5 m tall; leaves glaucous 
below; bracts green, calyx reddish, corolla 
pink; fruit bright red. 
Locality: Ca. 3 km SE of Taman Jaya, in Cijaga 
Besar River watershed. 
Habitat: Secondary Forest, dominated by 
Elaeocarpus, Cassia, Micromelum, etc. 
100 m,006°12’S X 105°30’E 
Local Names: ""Patat duam”" 
A. McDonald & Afriastini 3425, May 26, 1992 
This is a voucher specimen for 
anticancer and anti-AIDS screening 
NCI Sample Number(s): U44Z4571-F, U44Z4572-G. 
Collected under the sponsorship of: U.S. National Cancer 
Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago, Arnold 
Arboretum (Harvard University), Field Museum of 
Natural History and Herbarium Bogoriense, LIPI. 
Please notify Field Museum Herbarium of any new 
determination of this collection, specifying that 
it is a University of Illinois at Chicago voucher. 
