Luvunga SCANDENS Buch.-Ham.
| Synonym : | Limonia scandens Roxb. Luvunga nitida Pierre |
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| Bangla Name : | Labangaphal, Lavangalota. |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Rutaceae |
| Disease : | Cooling, aphrodisiac, allay thirst, cures consumption, biliousness, burning and fever. |
| Description : | A scandent evergreen shrub generally tufted from the ground with strong axillary spines. Leaves 3-foliolate, long-pelioled, leaflets lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, coriaceous. Flowers conspicuous, white, in glabrous, cymose racemes in the axils of the leaves, petals about 10-12 mm long. Berries oval, obscurely 3-lobed, the size of a pigeon’s egg. |
| Distribution : | Forests of Sylhet. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Four crystalline neutral compounds have been isolated from mature fruits (Chopra, 1992). Myricardiol, taraxerol and myricolal have been isolated from the bark (Rastogi and Mehrotra, 1990). |
| Uses : | Root and berries are cooling and aphrodisiac, allay thirst, cures consumption, biliousness, burning and fever. |
| Habit : | Shrub |