Lantana CAMARA L.
| Synonym : | Lantana aculeata L. Lantana antillana Raf. Lantana asperata Vis. Lantana crocea Jacq. Lantana spinosa L. ex Le Cointe |
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| Bangla Name : | Chotra. |
| English Name : | Lantana. |
| Family : | Verbenaceae |
| Disease : | Vulnerary,diaphoretic, carminative,antispasmodic,tetanus,rheumatism,malaria, viscera and measles. |
| Description : | A large scrambling evergreen shrub, 1.2-2.4 m high with many recurved prickles on stems. Leaves opposite, 2.5-7.5 cm long, ovate, subacute, crenate-serrate, scrabrid on both sides. Flowers small, 6 mm across, variously coloured in heads, 2.5 cm across. Fruit rotundate, smooth, size of a pea, black. |
| Distribution : | over Bangladesh, in scrubs, roadsides and fallow lands. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Plant yields an essential oil containing camerene, isocamerene and micranene. Leaves during flowering and seedling stages yield 0.31-0.68% lantanine (Chopra et al., 1992). Aerial parts contain a cardio active principle, lancamarone and toxic triterpene ac |
| Uses : | The plant is considered vulnerary, diaphoretic, carminative and antispasmodic, decoction is given in tetanus, rheumatism and malaria, much used in atony of abdominal viscera. Leaves are used for the treatment of measles, malaria and tetanus in Khagrachari |
| Habit : | Tree |