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| Bangla Name : | Tiki-okra. |
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| English Name : | - |
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| Family : | Sterculiaceae |
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| Disease : | Sore and dysentery. |
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| Description : | An annual shrubby herb. Leaves very variable in size and shape, 2.5-7.5 cm long, ovate-oblong, acute, serrate, sometimes obscurely lobed. Flowers small, pink, densely crowded in terminal clusters. Capsules depressed globose.
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| Distribution : | All over Bangladesh, in wet-lands. |
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| Chemical Constituents : | A melocorin, along with hibifolin and tirfolin characterised as 3,4?,5,7- tetrahydroxy-8-O-?-D-glucuronosylflavone (herbacetin-8-O-glucuronide) have been isolated from this plant (Rastogi and Mehrotra, 1993). |
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| Uses : | Leaves are applied as a poultice for sore and swellings of the abdomen. Decoctions of the leaves and roots are useful in dysentery. |
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| Habit : | Shrub |
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