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{kan.hkyoap-hpru} Plumbago zeylanica L.
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KS-TMN 186
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Burmese-Myanmar name in Nagathein :1-108**{kan.hkyoap-hpru} Photos: |
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Identification characters:
A perennial herb, undershrub or shrub, branches diffuse, subscandent; stems
somewhat woody, the younger ones cylindrical, striate, covered with scurfy
glandular, multicellular and peltate hairs. Leaves alternate, simple;
exstipulate; subsessile, the petiole bases dilated, amplexicaul; laminae ovate,
the bases shortly and abruptly attenuated into a short petiole, the margins
entire, the tips acute, unicostate, reticulate, the surfaces glabrous, the lower
glaucous. Inflorescences terminal cincinni, unilateral, simple or sometimes
panicled; peduncles spicate, with stipituate glands, the cymules 1-floered;
bracts ovate, persistent. Flowers bracteolate, pedicellate, bisexual,
actinomorphic, pentamerous, hypogynous. Calyx synsepalous, tubular, 5-toothed,
the outer surfaces covered densely with viscid glandular hairs. Corolla
sunpetalous, salveform, 5-lobed, the lobes obovate-oblong, acute, apiculate,
white, Androecium polyandrous, stamens 5, the filaments dilated at the bases,
opposite the corolla lobes, the anthers dithecous, oblongoid, basifixed,
introrse, exserted just beyond the throat, dehiscence longitudinal. Pistil 1,
ovary 5-lobed, ovoid-oblongoid, attenuated at the apex, 5-carpelled, syncarpous,
1-loculed, the ovule solitary and pendulous from a basal funicle, the style
terminal, filiform, divides aboce into 5 lognitudinally enclosed in persistent
calyx covered with viscid glandular hairs; seeds ellipsoid, albument scanty.
Flowering period: November-February Fruiting period: November-February
Distribution: Common throughout Myanmar
Parts used and uses: Root, bark -- Oedema; Leucoderma; Leprosy; Pruritis; Cough; Rhinorrhoea; Chest pain; Dysentery; Infections; Arthritis; Anaemia; Splenomegaly; Elephantiansis.
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