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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.
{pa.doan°-ma-kra} Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.1-158
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KS-TMN 169
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Botanical name: Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn. Fruct. I.73,t. 19, f.2.1788. Myanmar name: Padone-mar-kyar; Kyar-khaung-laung. English name: Sacred Lotus; Chinese Water-lily; Egyptian Bean; Indian Lotus: Pythagorean Bean Family: Nelumbonaceae
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Identification characters:
A large aquatic perennial herb with milky latex; rootstock a slender, elongate,
branched, submerged rhizome. Leaves alternate, simple, raised high above the
water; petioles very long, erect, smooth, with small distant prickles; laminae
orbicular, concave or cupped, peltate, the margins entire, multicostate,
reticulate, radiatedly nerved, membranous, the surfaces glabrous, the surfaces
glabrous, glaucous. Inflorescences scapose, the scapes 1-flowered, long and
stout, flexible, prickly, floating. Flowers showy, fragrant, bisexual,
actinomorphic, polymerous, hypogynous. Calyx aposepalous, the sepals 4-5, small,
caducous. Corolls apopetalous, the petals numerous, elliptic, obtuse, erect,
concave, later spreading, many-seriate, caducous. Androecium polyandrous,
stamens numerous, acyclic, the anthers dithecous, linear-oblongoid, with a
clavate appendage, basifixed, introrse, dehiscence longitudinal. Pistils many,
apocarpous, the pistil 1-carpelled 1-loculed, the ovary oblongoid, sunk in the
flat top of the obconic spongy torus, the ovule solitary pendulous, the style
obsolete, the stigma discoid. Fruit an aggregate of indehiscent nutlets, the
seed filling the carpel, testa spongy, non-endospermic.
Flowering period: October-December
Fruiting period: November-January
Distribution: Aquatic, in warmer parts of Myanmar
Parts used and uses: Root -- Expectorant; Biliousness; To allay thirst. Young leaf -- Dysuria; Haematemesis: Haemorrhoids. Petioles -- Biliousness; Dysuria; Haematemesis; Constipation; Indigestion; Carminative. Flower -- Metrorrhagia; Skin disease; Eye disease. Pollen -- Promotes spermatogenesis; Astringent; Oedema; To allay thirst; Bleeding piles; As an antidote for poisons. Ovary -- Metrorrhagia; Expectorant; Biliousness; To allay thirst; For cleansing oral cavity. Seed -- For perpetuation of conception; Promotes spermatogenesis; Haematemesis. Nectary -- Eye disease
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