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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.
{krak-hin:hka:} Momordica-charantia L. 1-185
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Botanical name: Momordica charantia L.Sp. Pl. 1009. 1753. Burmese-Myanmar name in Nagathein 1-185: Photos: |
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Botanical name: Momordica charantia L.Sp. Pl. 1009. 1753.
Myanmar name: Kyet-hin-ga
English name: Carilla fruit
Family: Cucurbitaceae
Identification characters:
An annual slender climber; stems long, much branched, 5-angled, grooved,
pubescent, young parts pubescent or villous. Leaves alternate, simple,
palmatisect, 5- to 7- lobed; exstipulate; tendrils simple, slender, angular,
spirally coiled, pubescent; petioles stout, canaliculate at the adaxial sides,
pubescent; laminae 5- to 7- sect, obscurely orbicular in outline, the lobes may
or may not lobulate, the bases deeply cordate, the margins sinuate-dentate, the
tips acute, 5- to 7- costate, reticulate, the surfaces pubescent or puberulent.
Inflorescences axillary and solitary cymes; bracts large, orbicular, usually
found at or below postillate flower, persistent. Flowers monoecious,
ebracteolate, pedicellate, unisexual, zygomorphic, pentamerous, epigynous. Calyx
synsepalous, campanulate, 5-lobed, the lobes ovate, acute, the tube short, with
2-3 basal oblong incurved scales. Corolla synpetalous, 5-lobed, rotate, the tube
very short, inserted on the rim of calyx tube, lemon-yellow. Staminate flowers:
stamens 3, inserted on the mouth of the corolla tube, the filaments short,
flattened, the anthers sigmoid, at first cohering, at length free, monothecous
in one stamen, dithecous in the other 2 stamens, dorsifixed, extrorse,
dehiscence longitudinal. Pistillode absent. Pistillate flowers: Calyx and
corolla characters similar to the staminate flower. Pistil 1, ovary ellipsoid,
muricate, 3-carpelled, syncarpous, 1-loculed, the placentation parietal, ovules
many, the style short, the stigma 3-lobed. Fruit a berry, ellipsoid, rostrate,
muricate, green when young, bright orange when ripe; seeds obovoid, compressed,
rugose, sculptured, aril red, non-endospermic.
Flowering and fruiting periods: Throughout the year
Distribution: Cultivated throughout Myanmar.
Parts used and uses: Roots, leaves, flowers, fruits and seeds -- Opthalmia; Biliousness; Expectorant; Pyrexia; Metrorrhagia; Anaemia; Urinary infections; Heals carbuncles; Bronchitis; Pruritis; Infections; Fissure in ano; Vaginitis. Leaf infusion -- Jaundice; Splenomegaly. Fresh leaf infusion -- Lithiasis; Stromatitis; Infections. Young fruit -- Arthritis. Fruit infusion -- Ascites; Cholera; Laryngitis
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