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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.
{hpoan°:ma.theim} Blumea balsamifera DC. 2-315
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KS-TMN 089
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Botanical name: Blumea balsamifera DC. Prodr. v. 466. 1836. Burmese-Myanmar name in Nagathein 2-315: Photos: |
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Identification characters:
An evergreen shrub, occasionally a small tree, smells strongly of camphor;
younger stems branching corymbose above, all softer parts densely appressed
villous. Leaves alternate, simple; exstipulate; petiolate; laminae lanceolate to
oblong-lanceolate, the bases decurrent, the margins serrulate or entire, repand,
the tips acute, unicostate, reticulate, the surfaces silky villous, coriaceous.
Inflorescences in capitula or leads, terminal, producing a pleiochasium of 4
main peduncles, each main peduncle terminating in a pleiochasium and laterally
bears 4-7 secondary peduncles below the pleiochasium, each peduncle bears a
capitulum, the capitulum campaniform; bracts forming an involucre, 6-seriate,
the bracts of outer 2 series ovate, those of the inner series linear, silky
pilose. Outer florets of capitulum many-seriate, pistillaes more than 80,
fertile, zygomorphic, trimerous, epigynous. Calyx 1-seriate as pappus hairs,
persistent. Corolla synpetalous, filiform, 2- to 3- toothed, yellow . Pistil
characters similar to those of disc floret. Inner or disc florets about 35,
bisexual, actinomorphic, pentamerous, epigynous. Calyx characters sumilar to the
pistillate florets. Corolla synpetalous, tubular, 5-toothed, yellow. Androecium
of 5 stamens, epipetalous, the anthers dithecous, oblongoid, the bases sagittate,
syngenesious, exserted, introrse, dehiscence longitudinal. Pistil 1, ovary
inferior, 2-carpelled, syncarpous, 1-loculed with a solitary basal ovule, the
style 1, the stigmatic branches 2, the stigmas 2. Fruit an achene, sericeous,
smooth, persistent pappus soft, pale pink; seeds non-endospermic.
Flowering period: April
Fruiting period: May
Distribution: On the hills of Myanmar.
Parts used and uses: Leaf -- Paralysis agitans; Skin disease; Urinary infection; Gonorrhoea; Cholera; Asthma; Tooth-ache; Antidote for scorpion stings; Chronic cough
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