Aristolochia indica {lth~tha.ra.mu-li}
Aristolochia spp.
compiled by U Kyaw Tun, U Pe Than, and staff of TIL. Not for sale.
Family: Aristolochiaceae 1
entry
Aristolochia indica
{lth~tha.ra.mu-li}
Aristolochia spp.
Main Index of DB | Top
TIL-DB Indices: Akshara |
Alphabet-Botanical |
Alphabet-Family
Index of Collected papers
Contents of this page
UKT: In order to overcome the short-coming of Arial Unicode font, the Romabama spelling is given in upper case letters: {ITH~THA.RA.MU-LI} -- the first letter is capital letter I and not L .
Burmese-Myanmar transcript names:
Agri.Dept.2000 64-1723:
{ITH~THA.RA.MU-LI A.HPO}
FAO : NL
Lθ-seik-shin 491:
{ITH~THA.RA.MU-LI}
KS-TMN 58: Eik-thara-muli
Nagathein 4-061:
(
)
{ITH~THA.RA.MU-LI (a.kri:myo:)}
UHM 07: Eik-thara-muli
UKT: Agri.Dept.2000 p64 listed two similar species, A. indica and A. macrophyla , which are differentiated by putting affixes. A. indica is affixed with
{a.hpo} literally meaning "male" by some authors, and
Searching the Chklist and USDA-NRCS-data has brought up an interesting point: Chklist listed only A. indica and not A. macrophyla, whereas USDA-NRCS-data listed only A. macrophyla and not A. indica.
Myanmar-Script Spelling
Official Myanmar Dictionary :
{lth~tha.ra.mu-li} -
--
TravPo-M-Dict 396
{lth~tha.ra.mu-li} - n. kind of creeper plant used in indigenous
medicine,
Aristolochia indica -- Myan-Engl-Dict 635
UKT: Note that the Pali word is made up of two parts, {lth~tha.ra.} and {mu-li}
Hindi
इसरमूल
-- translitered by Nagathein to
{i.hsar-mul} -- Nagathein
Sanskrit
UKT: Comparison of Hindi and Burmese names brings up an interesting point for me who is interested in the akshara writing system. In Hindi-Devanagari, the second character is स which corresponds to Burmese-Myanmar r6v5
{tha.} and not to r2c2
{hsa.} as Shin Nagathein had suggested. It is obvious that he had given the transcription of the Hindi name in Burmese-Myanmar script, instead of transliterating from Devanagari to Myanmar.
If we are to ignore the inconsistency of the second character, we can conclude that the name of the plant in Burmese and Hindi in script form (Myanmar for Burmese, and Devanagari for Hindi) is the same.
English common name used in Myanmar
Agri.Dept.2000 64-1723: Birthwort
FAO : NL
Lθ-seik-shin 491: Indian birthwort
KS-TMN 58: Indian birthwort
Nagathein 4-061: not given
UHM 07: Indian birthwort
UKT: The English common name "birthworth" is listed in AHTD:
birth·wort n. 1. Any of several herbs or woody vines of the genus Aristolochia having showy, malodorous, purplish-brown to yellowish flowers with peculiar or unusual shapes. The European species A. clematitis was used as a folk medicine to aid childbirth.
Leader from Nagathein
Photos: left -- habit with flowers, right -- habit with fruits -- KS-TMN
Woody climbers; stems 6-angled, ribbed; underground stems or rhizomes small, bear numerous wiry roots. Leaves alternate, simple; exstipulate; petiolate; laminae pandurate, the bases obtuse, the margins obscurely entire, the tips acute, unicostate, reticulate. Inflorescences axillary racemes, 3- to 7-flowered, epigynous. Perianthe synphyllous, the limb 2-lobed, ligulate, dark purple, the tubes cylindrical with a globose base, pale green, mouth oblique. Androecium polyandrous, stamens 6, adnate to the style, forming a cupular column or gynosteminum, the filaments sessile, the anthers dithecous, oblongoid, adnate, extrorse, inserted, dehiscence longitudinal. Pistil 1, ovary narrowly obovoid, 2-carpelled, syncarpous, 6-loculed, the placentation axile, the ovules numerous, one in each locule, the style short and stout, the stigma 6-lobed, Fruit a septicidal capsule, oblongoid, sulcate; seeds triangular, endosperm fleshy. Flowering period: October-November. Fruiting period: November-January -- KS-TMN
A shrub with twining long stems which are slender and woody at the base, grooved and glabrous; leaves of various forms from linear-oblong to obovate-oblong or subpanduriform, usually obtuse acuminate, glabrous, subcordate or subtruncate or rounded, inflorescence, axillary few flowered racemes -- UHM
Grows wild throughout Myanmar, common on low hills. -- KS-TMN
Sagaing, Shwebo, Pa-an Division, Indu -- UHM
Root: Oxytocic: Chronic arthritis; Diaphoretic; Leucoderma; Head-ache; Antidote for snake and scorpion venoms; Dysentery; Amenorrhoea; Infantile diarrhoea, Pyrexia and laryngeal disease. Root decoction -- Arthritis. Leaf: Ascites. Fresh leaf -- Antidote for snake-bite -- KS-TMN
Dried stem and bark. -- UHM
1. iso-Aristolochic acid, allantoin, 0.05 % alkaloid aristolochin, essential oil containing carbonyl compounds (13) -- UHM
Results of search for 'Aristolochia' in the Checklist of Plants
of Myanmar, U.S. National Herbarium, 30 Apr 2006.
Aristolochia atropurpurea Par. Habit: Climber/Creeper. Distribution:
Mon
Aristolochia bracteata Retz. Habit: Climber/Creeper. Distribution:
Wide. Common Names: Poe-that
Aristolochia cucurbitoides Liang. Habit: Climber. Distribution:
Reported from Myanmar
Aristolochia griffithii Hook. f. & Thomson ex Duch. Habit: Climber.
Distribution: Reported from Myanmar
Aristolochia hookeriana Craib. Habit: Climber/Creeper. Distribution:
Cultivated. Common Names: Fly catching plant
Aristolochia indica L. Habit: Climber/Creeper. Distribution:
Bago, Mandalay, Yangon. Common Names: Eik-tha-ra-muli, Indian birth wort
Aristolochia pierrei Lecomte. Habit: Climber. Distribution: Reported
from Myanmar
Aristolochia roxburghiana Klotzsch. Habit: Shrub, Climber.
Distribution: Kayin, Sagaing, Yangon
Aristolochia saccata Wall. Habit: Climber/Creeper. Distribution: Chin
Aristolochia tagala Cham. Habit: Climber/Creeper. Distribution: Chin,
Mandalay, Yangon
Aristolochia transsecta (Chatterjee) C.Y. Wu. Cited as: Isotrema
transsectum Chatterjee. Habit: Climber. Distribution: Reported from Myanmar
Aristolochia wardiana Ma. Habit: Climber. Distribution: Reported from
Myanmar
USDA-NRCS-data
"ARIST2","Aristolochia L.","dutchman's pipe","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARAN6","Aristolochia anguicida Jacq.","harlequin dutchman's
pipe","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARBI4","Aristolochia bilabiata L.","West Indian dutchman's
pipe","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARCH16","Aristolochia chasmema auct. non H. Pfeifer [misapplied]",">>Aristolochia
bilabiata","Aristolochiaceae"
"AROB5","Aristolochia oblongata auct. non Jacq. [misapplied]",">>Aristolochia
bilabiata","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARBI5","Aristolochia bilobata L.","twolobe dutchman's pipe","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARCA10","Aristolochia californica Torr.","California dutchman's
pipe","Aristolochiaceae"
"ISCA2","Isotrema californica (Torr.) Huber",">>Aristolochia
californica","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARCL","Aristolochia clematitis L.","birthwort","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARCO40","Aristolochia cordifolia Mutis ex Kunth [excluded]","","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARCO8","Aristolochia coryi I.M. Johnston","Cory's dutchman's
pipe","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARBR9","Aristolochia brevipes auct. non Benth. [misapplied]",">>Aristolochia
coryi","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARBRA2","Aristolochia brevipes Benth. var. acuminata S. Wats.",">>Aristolochia
coryi","Aristolochiaceae"
"AREL10","Aristolochia elegans Mast.","elegant dutchman's
pipe","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARLI5","Aristolochia littoralis auct. non Parodi [misapplied]",">>Aristolochia
elegans","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARER","Aristolochia erecta L.","swanflower","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARLO10","Aristolochia longiflora Engelm. & Gray",">>Aristolochia
erecta","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARGR2","Aristolochia grandiflora Sw.","pelicanflower","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARLA24","Aristolochia labiata Willd.","mottled dutchman's
pipe","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARMA7","Aristolochia macrophylla Lam.","pipevine","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARDU2","Aristolochia durior Hill",">>Aristolochia
macrophylla","Aristolochiaceae"
"ISMA4","Isotrema macrophyllum (Lam.) C.F. Reed",">>Aristolochia
macrophylla","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARMA9","Aristolochia maxima Jacq.","Florida dutchman's pipe","Aristolochiaceae"
"AROD","Aristolochia odoratissima L.","fragrant dutchman's
pipe","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARPE7","Aristolochia peltata L.","peltate dutchman's pipe","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARPE8","Aristolochia pentandra Jacq.","Marsh's dutchman's
pipe","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARMA8","Aristolochia marshii Standl.",">>Aristolochia
pentandra","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARRE3","Aristolochia reticulata Jacq.","Texas dutchman's
pipe","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARRI3","Aristolochia ringens Vahl","gaping dutchman's pipe","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARSE3","Aristolochia serpentaria L.","Virginia snakeroot","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARCO20","Aristolochia convolvulacea Small",">>Aristolochia
serpentaria","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARHA4","Aristolochia hastata Nutt.",">>Aristolochia
serpentaria","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARNA2","Aristolochia nashii Kearney",">>Aristolochia
serpentaria","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARSEH","Aristolochia serpentaria L. var. hastata (Nutt.) Duchartre",">>Aristolochia
serpentaria","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARSEN","Aristolochia serpentaria L. var. nashii (Kearney) Ahles",">>Aristolochia
serpentaria","Aristolochiaceae"
"ENSEH","Endodeca serpentaria (L.) Raf. var. hastata (Nutt.) C.F. Reed",">>Aristolochia
serpentaria","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARTO3","Aristolochia tomentosa Sims","woolly dutchman's pipe","Aristolochiaceae"
"ISTO","Isotrema tomentosa (Sims) Huber",">>Aristolochia
tomentosa","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARTR5","Aristolochia trilobata L.","bejuco de santiago","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARWA","Aristolochia watsonii Woot. & Standl.","Watson's dutchman's
pipe","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARPO10","Aristolochia porphyrophylla H. Pfeifer",">>Aristolochia
watsonii","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARWR2","Aristolochia wrightii Seem.","Wright's dutchman's
pipe","Aristolochiaceae"
"ARIST5","Aristotelia L'Hιr.","","Elaeocarpaceae"
"ARCH17","Aristotelia chilensis (Molina) Stuntz","maquei","Elaeocarpaceae"
Entry format: Botanical name / Family / Ref. Burmese-Myanmar
transcripts ( Agri.Dept.2000 :
Chklist: LSR : FAO : KS-TMN:
Nagathein :
UHM :/ Myanmar-Script Spelling (
Official Myanmar Dictionaries : - TravPo-M-Dict - Myan-Engl-Dict - Myan-Ortho
/ Hindi /
Sanskrit / English common name used in Myanmar / Picture /
Plant identification characters / Distribution in Myanmar / Part
used and uses / Constituents /
End of TIL file