Botany
Payung-payuñgan is a perennial herb with a rootstock that is tuberous, ovoid, small, 2 to 4 centimeters in diameter. Petiole is slender, 20 to 30 centimeters long. Leaves are pedately 5- to 7-partite, 15 to 20 centimeters in diameter, thin; segments are oblong to elliptic-oblong, entire, acuminate, the lower two on each side more united than the others. Scapes are slender, about as long as the leaves. Flowers are umbellate, pedicelled, purple and green, about 8 millimeters long, the involucre usually of four leaves, the outer two broadly ovate, acuminate, nearly sessile, and 3 to 6 centimeters long; the inner two with constricted bases, petioled. Fruit is subglobose, fleshy, red, and about 1 centimeter long.

Distribution
- In thickets and secondary forests at a low altitude in Pangasinan, Nueva Ecija, Bulacan, Rizal, Bataan and Laguna Provinces in Luzon, in Semirara, and in Panay.
- Occurs in the Malay Archipelago.

Properties
Rhizomes are bitter.

Parts used
Rhizomes.

Uses
Folkloric
Scrapings from tuberous rhizomes are chewed as stomachic.
Also used by women for menstrual disorders.

Availability
Wild-crafted.