Tacca INTEGRIFOLIA Ker.-Gawl.
| Synonym : | Ataccia aspera (Roxb.) Kunth Ataccia cristata (Jack) Kunth Tacca aspera Roxb. Tacca cristata Jack |
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| Bangla Name : | Bara Hikand, Vrahikanda. |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Taccaceae |
| Disease : | Haemorrhagic diathesis,skin diseases, leprosy. |
| Description : | A herb with oblong curved rootstock. Leaves entire, elliptic ovate, acuminate, 20-40 cm long, strongly nerved. Scape maroon-brown, about as long as the petiole, stout, recurved or bent to one side, few-flowered. Involucral bracts large, spreading, foliaceous, purplish-black, 2 inner larger than the 2 outer, bracteoles long, filiform, pendent. Flowers pale, perianth greenish purple and yellow or dirty lilac, outer lobes subulate, rather shorter than the obtuse inner. Berry almost 4 cm, oblong, fleshy. |
| Distribution : | Forests of Chittagong, Chittagong Hill Tracts and Moulvi Bazar. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Tuber contains saponin steroids, diosgenin, costanogenin, quercetin-3-arabinoside, taccalin, betulinic acid, n-triacontanol, proteins and amino acids, glycine, valine, leucine and ?-aminobutyric acid (Ghani, 2003). |
| Uses : | The tubers are digestive and tonic, used in haemorrhagic diathesis, skin diseases and leprosy. |
| Habit : | Herb |