Dendrocnide sinuata (Blume) Chew.
| Synonym : | Laportea crenulata Gaudich. Dendrocnide pulus (Steud.) Chew Laportea sinuata (Blume) Miq. Urticastrum sinuatum (Blume) Kuntze |
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| Bangla Name : | Chutra, Chorpata.,Hung Su, Mang Jaiah (Marma). |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Urticaceae |
| Disease : | Scabies and fever. |
| Description : | An evergreen shrub, 2.4-3 m high, branches stout, terete, green. Leaves 23-30 cm long, oval to oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acute, acuminate or caudate, clothed beneath and often above with stinging hairs, entire, minutely sinuate or crenulate above the middle, base rounded or cordate. Cymes short, flexuous, suberect, flowers small, diocious in dichotomously branched cymes. |
| Distribution : | Chittagong Hill tracts, Kurigram, Lalmonirhat, Mymensingh and other parts of the country in forest and village thickets. |
| Chemical Constituents : | - |
| Uses : | Young twigs are fried or cooked as vegetables and taken to cure scabies. Root juice is given in long standing fever. Plant is poisonous. |
| Habit : | Shrub |