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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.
{hsi-mi:tauk} Gloriosa superba L. 1-419
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KS-TMN 078
Identification characters:
A herbaceous climber, tall, branching, glabrous; stems twining, leafy, annual;
rootstock of fleshy solid arched V-shaped cylindric tubes, bifurcatedly
branched, roots fibrous. Leaves alternate; sessile; laminae lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate,
the bases cordate, the margins entire, the tips cirrhous, venation parallel,
glabrous. Inflorescences solitary cymes, axillary; bracts small, scarious.
Flowers large, showy, ebracteolate, the pedicels reflexed at tips, bisexual,
actinomorphic, trimerous, hypogynous.Calyx and corolla undifferentiated,
perianth petaloid, apophyllous, the segments 6, 2-seriate, linear-lanceolate,
the margins crispy, undulate, golden yellow about one third of length from the
base, the margins and midrib also, bright red above, persistent. Androecium
polyandrous, stamens 6,2-seriate, the filaments stout, filiform, golden yellow,
the anthers dithecous, linear, dorsifixed, versatile, dehiscence longitudinal.
Pistil 1, ovary 3-carpelled, syncarpous, 3-loculed, the placentation axile, the
ovules 2 in each locule, the style filiform, deflexed, the stigma 3-fid,
stigmatose within. Fruit a septicidal capsule, linear-oblongoid, coriaceous;
seeds subglobose, testa spongy, endospermic.
Flowering period: June - July
Fruiting period: July - September
Distribution: Grows wild throughout the tropics ascending up to 5,000ft.
Parts used and uses: Root -- Anasarca; Oxytocic; Dispels retain placenta; Otitis externa. Leaf -- Jaundice; Ear disease; Infections; Boils, Pustules
UKT: Medical terms from AHTD:
• o·ti·tis n. 1. Inflammation of the ear. o·tit “ic adj.
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