Lasia is a genus of flowering plants in the family Araceae, native to Asia and New Guinea. The genus contains only two known species, Lasia spinosa and Lasia concinna.[1][2][3] Lasia was believed to be a monotypic genus until 1997 when a wild population of Lasia concinna was discovered in a farmer's paddy field in West Kalimantan, Indonesia. The farmer had been growing them for their edible young leaves. This species of Lasia had been known of previously only from a single specimen at the Bogor Botanic Gardens, formally described in 1920.[4] Prior to 1997, the specimen was believed to have been a hybrid between Lasia spinosa and Cyrtosperma merkusii.[5] The subsequent discovery by Hambali and Sizemore led to the realization that it was in fact a distinct species.[6][7]
| Lasia | |
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| Lasia spinosa | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Monocots |
| Order: | Alismatales |
| Family: | Araceae |
| Subfamily: | Lasioideae |
| Genus: | Lasia Lour. |
| Synonyms[1] | |
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Lasius Hassk. | |
Species
edit- Lasia concinna Alderw. – West Kalimantan (Borneo)
- Lasia spinosa (L.) Thwaites – China (including Tibet), Taiwan, Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, Malaysia, Indonesia, New Guinea
Uses
editIn Sri Lanka, Lasia spinosa is known as kohila (කොහිල) and the leaves and rhizomes of the plant are used in Sri Lankan cuisine.[8]
Leaf extract of Lasia spinosa has shown significant anthelminthic efficacy against the adult stages and migrating larvae of Trichinella spiralis. doi: 10.1007/s00436-011-2551-9.
Myanmar
editIn Myanmar, Lasia plant is known as Zayit (in Myanmar ဇရစ်). Its shoots are used in cuisines either as fried cuisine or soup. [9] [10] [11]
References
edit- ^ a b Kew World Checklist of Selected Plant Families
- ^ Govaerts, R. & Frodin, D.G. (2002). World Checklist and Bibliography of Araceae (and Acoraceae): 1–560. The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
- ^ Flora of China, Vol. 23 Page 16 刺芋属 ci yu shu, Lasia Loureiro, Fl. Cochinch. 1: 64, 81. 1790.
- ^ Alderwerelt van Rosenburgh, Cornelis Rugier Willem Karel van. 1920. Bulletin du Jardin Botanique de Buitenzorg 1: 379
- ^ Hay, A. (1990). Aroids of Papua New Guinea. Christensen Research Center
- ^ Bown, Demi (2000). Aroids: Plants of the Arum Family. Timber Press. ISBN 0-88192-485-7.
- ^ Hambali, G. G. and Sizemore, M. (1997). The rediscovery of Lasia concinna Alderw. (Araceae: Lasioideae) in West Kalimantan, Borneo. Aroideana 20: 37-39.
- ^ "Lasia spinosa". Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition. 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2022.
- ^ "Tamarind Browse and My Made Eating ( Part- 9 )". 10 May 2019.
- ^ "#ဇရစ်ဟင်း#MPSDishes". YouTube. 23 April 2022.
- ^ "ဇရစ္႐ိုးနဲ႔မန္က်ည္းရြက္ခ်က္ (ဇရစ္႐ိုးမန္က်ည္းရြက္ခ်က္နည္း". YouTube. August 2020.
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