RHYNCHOTECHUM ELLIPTICUM (Wall. ex D. Dietr.) A. DC.
| Synonym : | Corysanthera elliptica Wall. ex D. Dietr. Rhynchotechum latifolium Hook. f. & Thomson ex C.B. Clarke Rhynchotechum obovatum (Griff.) B.L. Burtt (Gesneriaceae) |
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| Bangla Name : | Cheodhima (Chakma), Paicha, Sattari (Marma). |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | - |
| Disease : | coughs |
| Description : | An erect undershrub, 0.6-1.2 m high with thickish stems. Leaves opposite, 16.5 cm or more long, broadly elliptic or obovate acute, minutely dentate, base cuneate, whitened beneath, above tawny, silkily wooly, afterwards glabrate, beneath densely cinnamoneous-woolly, afterwards glabrate. Flowers rose-purple, in umbellate cymes in the lower axills. Berry 6 mm diam. |
| Distribution : | Chittagong and Sylhet. |
| Chemical Constituents : | - |
| Uses : | Leaf extract alleviates coughs in children. |
| Habit : | Under shrub |