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UKT: Nagathein references are given to check the Burmese-Myanmar names. * shows where there is no agreement in Burmese name but when the plant is identifiable from botanical name.
{kyi~:} ; {kyi~:-ni} } ; {ré-kyi~:} Barringtonia acutangula Gaertn. 1-148
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KS-TMN 121
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Botanical name: Barringtonia
acutangula Gaertn. Fruct. 11,97. 1791. Burmese-Myanmar name in Nagathein 1-148: Photos: |
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Identification characters:
A tree; younger stems slender, glabrous, pale grey. Leaves opposite to
sub-alternate, simple, crowded towards the ends of branches; exstipulate, the
tips acute to rounded, sometimes emarginate, unicostate, reticulate, not
gland-dotted. Inflorescences in terminal and axillary racimiform spikes slender,
pendulous, many-flowered; bracts small, ovate, deciduous. Flowers bracteolate,
the bracteoles caducous, pedicellate, bisexual, actinomorphic, tetramerous,
epigynous. Calyx synsepalous, infundibuliform, 4-lobed, the lobes orbicular,
ciliolate, the tube nearly as long as the lobes, persistent. Corolla apopetalous,
the petals 4, elliptic-oblong, red, the bases adnate to the staminal tube,
inserted on the margin of the annular disc. Androecium monadelphous, stamens
about 50, all fertile, the filaments filiform, reddish, connate at the bases, to
form a staminal tube, the anthers dithecous, versatile, introrse, dehiscence
longitudinal; disc annular, adnate to the staminal tube. Pistil 1, ovary
inferior, 2-carpelled, syncarpous, 2-loculed, the placentation axile, the ovules
2-8 in each locule, pendulous, the style long, filiform, the stigma 2-lobed.
Fruit a berry, oblongoid, quadrangular, broadest in the middle, subtruncate at
each end, crowned by the persistent calyx lobes, 1-seeded by abortion; seed
solitary, ovoid-ellipsoid, non-endospermic.
Flowering period: January-April
Fruiting period: May - August
Distribution: Grows wild in Myanmar, common near water edges of streams, lakes and ponds.
Parts used and uses: Whole plant -- Carminative. Root -- Cathartic; For longevity of life. Leaf -- Indigestion; Promotes peristalsis of the intestine. Seed -- Vertigo; Neurological disease; Oxytocic; Colic; Antiseptic; Ophthalmina; Epiphora; Gastric ulcer; Constipation; Common cold; Cough; Deafness; Migraine; Listlessness and lack of activity; Psychoses; Sudden onset of fever; Greyness of hair, Leucoderma; Menorrhagia; Sterility in woman; Impotency; Haemarrhoids; Nyctalopia; Asthma; Jaundice; Back-ache; Boils, Cuts, Bruises; Ringworm; Anthelmintic; Antidote for snake and scorpion venoms; Carminative; As an expectorant
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