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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.
{Au:za}Annona squamosa L. 4-107
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Botanical name: Annona squamosa L. Sp. Pl. 537. 1753. Myanmar name: Aw-za English names: Custard apple, Sugar apple, Sweet Sop Family: Annonaceae
Burmese-Myanmar name in Nagathein 4-107: Photos: |
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Identification characters:
A small tree. Leaves alternate; simple; exstipulate;
petioles cylindrical, short; laminae obovate, the bases obtuse, the margins
entire, the tips acute, unicostate, reticulate, the lower surfaces glaucous,
pubescent when young. Inflorescences in leaf-opposed solitary cymes; bracts
found below the middle. Flowers ebracteloate, pedicellate, bisexual,
actinomorphic, trimerous, hypogynous. Perianth apophyllous, 3-seriate, sepaloid,
greenish. Calyx aposepalous, sepals 3, ligulate, deciduous. Corolla apopetalous,
petals 6, 2-seriate, ligulate, pubescent. Androecium polyandrous, stamens
numerous, spirally arranged, the filaments thick and short, the anthers
dithecous, ovoid, 4-celled at anthesis, extrorse, terminated by an enlarged
ovoid connective. Pistils numerous, apocarpous, each 1-carpelled, 1-loculed, the
placentation parietal, the ovule 1 in the locule, the style oblong, very short,
the stigma simple. Fruit an aggregate of berries, globose, fleshy; seeds large,
brownish black, embryo small, endosperm very large, ruminate.
Flowering period: March-April
Fruiting period: June-September
Distribution: Common throughout Myanmar, in dry plains. Planted.
Parts used and uses: Root -- Oliguria; Abscess in sores; Anthelmintic for cattle; Rectal prolapse in children; For the treatment of muscle spasticity. Young Fruit -- Antiseptic for sores. Ripe fruit -- Abscess in sores; Vulnerary; Antipyretic for high fevers. Seed -- Antiseptic for sores in man, cattle, and domestic animals; Oxytocic; Epilepsy; Pediculosis
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