Schefflera hypoleuca (Kurz) Harms.
| Synonym : | Heptapleurum hypoleucum Kurz. |
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| Bangla Name : | Sheth scefler(B),Jharobbo hogoeya (Chakma.). |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Araliaceae |
| Disease : | Diarrhoea. |
| Description : | A small unarmed tree. Leaflets 10-20 cm long, polymorphous, oblong or ovate, acute, entire, serrulate or lobed or irregularly pinnatifid, with scattered lax, slellate, wooly hairs beneath, deciduous, leaving a glaucous surface. Panicles 30-38 cm long, lower branches often elongate with several umbels, stellatey woolly. |
| Distribution : | Scanty in the forests of Chittagong and Chittagong Hill Tracts. |
| Chemical Constituents : | - |
| Uses : | Both stem and leaf extract is taken frequently by the Chakmas for the cure of diarrhoea. |
| Habit : | Tree |