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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.
{lak-pan°} Salmalia malabarica Schott. et Endl. 3-235
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Botanical name: Salmalia malabarica Schott. et Endl. Melet. 35. 1852. Myanmar name: Let-pan English names: Semal Tree; Silk Cotton Tree Family: Bombacaceae
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Identification characters:
A tree; stems of younger trees armed with sharp conical woody prickles, the
younger stems glabrous, lenticels many. Leaves palmately compound;
exstipulate; petioles cylindrical, glabrous; petiolules short; leaflets 4-5,
elliptic to broadly elliptic, the bases obtuse, the margins entire, obscurely
undulate, the tips acute to acuminate to attenuate, glabrous. Inflorescences
axillary or subterminal, the cymes solitary, the flowers appearing below the
leaves, usually cauliflorus; bracts absent. Flowers ebracteolate, pedicellate,
bisexual, actinomorphic, pentamerous, hypogynous. Calyx synsepalous, 5-to
7-lobed, campanulate, glabrous, coriaceous. Corolla apopetalous, the petals 5,
oblong, the tips acute, scarlet, the outer surfaces stellate-tomentose, the
inner stellate-tomentose, the inner stellate-pubescent. Androecium polyadelphous,
stamens numerous, the staminal column divided into one central phalange and 5
outer phalanges, the central phalange entirely enclosing the style, the anthers
monothecous, reniform, dehiscence longitudinal. Pistil 1, ovary ovoid,
5-carpelled, syncarpous, 5-loculed, the placentation axile, the ovules many in
each locule, sericeous, the style cylindrical, wholly enclosed within the
central phalange, the stigmas 5, linear. Fruit a loculicidal capsule, 5-valved,
ovoid, downy, lined within with white silky hairs; seeds ovoid, numerous, packed
in a woolly proliferation (white cotton) of the pericarp, endosperm scanty.
Flowering and fruiting periods: February - April
Distribution: Grows wild throughout the tropical regions of Myanmar.
Parts used and uses: Root -- Oedema; Biliousness; Impotency; Promotes spermatogenesis; Pyuria; Dysuria; Haematuria; Small pox. Bark: Menorrhagia; Spermatorrhoea; Herpes; Dysuria; Sore throat; Fatigue; Heart disease; Dysentery; Gains weight. Leaf -- Myositis stiffness. Flower -- Haematemesis; Pneumonitis; Splenomegaly; Leucorrhoea; Leucoderma; Bleeding piles; Metrorrhagia; Ascites; Biliousness; Expectorant; Purifies blood. Fruit -- Aphrodisiac; Expectorant; Purifies blood; Gains weight; Haematemesis; Haemorroids. Seed -- Small pox. Resin -- Menorrhagia; Infantile diarrhoea; Dysentry; Diarrhoea; Promotes spermatogenesis.
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