Diospyros malabarica(desr.) Kostel.
| Synonym : | Diospyros peregrina(Gaertn.) Girke Diospyros citrifolia Wall. ex A.DC. Diospyros biflora Blanco Em |
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| Bangla Name : | Gab,Desi gab,Makur-kendi,Kala tendu,Keth gula(chakma),Tomal(Hajong),Thysee(Khasia),Nekurkendi(Lalong |
| English Name : | Gaub persimmon,River ebony,Indian persimmon,Malabar ebony,Wild Mangosteen. |
| Family : | Ebenaceaea |
| Disease : | Ulcers, dysentery, blood purification, abscesses, abdominal pain, astringent, oleagenous; biliousness, stone in urinary tract, acrid, bitter, cures blisters in mouth, wounds, ulcers, diarrhoea, aphthae, sore throat, coughs, dyspnoea, hiccup, intermittent |
| Description : | Dioecious trees, bark black with greenish tinge flaking off in thick scales; branchlets glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous, estipulate, base round, obtuse or acute, apex acute or obtuse, margin entire, glabrous and shining, coriaceous. Flowers unisexual, pale yellow; male flowers: 2-7 in axillary, drooping cymes, peduncle short; stamens usually 40, in pairs, inserted at the base of the corolla tube or on the receptacle beneath it; filaments hairy; anthers nearly equal, linear with a line of hairs up the middle; pistillode fleshy; female flowers: usually solitary, axillary, drooping; pedicels very short; ovary superior, globose, 8-celled, ovule 1-in each cell. Fruit a berry, subglobose, yellow, covered with a rusty easily detachable scruffiness; pericarp thin, pulp viscid and glutinous; seeds 4-8, flattened, reddish-brown. |
| Distribution : | This species found throughout Bangladesh. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Fruit pulp contains?-sitosteroI and its glucoside, betulin, a monohydroxy triterpene ketone, betulinic acid, gallic acid, hexacosane, hexacosanol. Oleanolic acid and myricyl alcohol from leaves. Saponin from bark. |
| Uses : | This plant is used in Ulcers, dysentery, blood purification, abscesses, abdominal pain, astringent, oleagenous; cures biliousness, stone in urinary tract, acrid, bitter, cures blisters in mouth, wounds, ulcers, diarrhoea, aphthae, sore throat, coughs, dys |
| Habit : | Tree |