Botany
Galamai is an epiphytic shrub or woody vine, smooth except for more or less hairy inflorescensces. Leaves are compound, each with 9 to 11 leaflets. Petioles are 13 to 18 centimeters long, inflated and clasping at the base. Leaflets are elliptic to obovate-elliptic, usually 7 to 13 centimeters in length, occasionally as long as 25 centimeters, 4.5 to 7 centimeters eifr, pointed at the apex, rounded at the base, and borne on stalks 3 to 5.5 centimeters long. Panicles are terminal, up to 20 centimeters, with stalks 4 to 10 centimeters long, and with few to many bracts resembling inflated petiolar bases. Flowers are small, 5-parted, 8 to 12 millimeters in length, and borne in rounded clusters (umbels). Fruit is subellipsoid, and 3 to 4 millimeters long, with five cells.

Distribution
- Found only in the Philippines.
- In primary forests at low and medium altitufdes, in Rizal, Laguna, Quezon, and Camarines Provinces in Luzon; and in Catanduanes, Mindoro, and Mindanao.

Parts utilized
Leaves

Uses
Folkloric
· Decoction of leaves used by mothers after childbirth; for drinking and bathing.
(See: Suob)

Availability
Wild-crafted.