Cissus REPENDA(Wight & Arn.) Vahl.
| Synonym : | Vitis rependa (Vahl.) Weight & Arn. Vitis rosea Royal. Cissus indica Rottler Cissus rosea (Royle) Walp. Rinxostylis repanda (Vahl) Raf. Vitis gigantea Bedd. |
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| Bangla Name : | Angrori (Khumi), Ludi bagraj (Chakma), Panilot (Tripura).,Ana mah (Marma). |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Vitaceae |
| Disease : | Boils. |
| Description : | A large woody climber with wrinkled soft stems, tendrill long, slender, forked. Leaves 10-20 cm long, broadly cordate, coarsely crenate or dentate or inciso-serrate or sublobed, often repand, densely covered when young with rust coloured hairs. Flowers white, in axillary, divaricate, shortly pedunculate, corymbose cymes. Berry about the size of a pea, subglobose. |
| Distribution : | Forests of Chittagong, Cox’s Bazar and Sylhet. |
| Chemical Constituents : | - |
| Uses : | The root powder after heating is applied to cuts and fractures. Leaf poultice reduces the inflammation of boils. |
| Habit : | Climber |