Bauhinia MACROSTACHYA Wall.


Synonym : Bauhinia macrostachya Wall.
Bangla Name : Gundagilla.
English Name : -
Family : Caesalpinaeae
Disease : Skin lesions.
Description : A large climber, usually with copious, stalked and forked tendrils. Leaves round-cordate, rigidly subcoriaceous, 7.5-10 cm long with an open deltoid sinus reaching 1/6 – 1/4 down and deltoid subacute lobes. Flowers in forked or simple peduncled narrow sub-lax racemes, 5-15 cm long, Calyx tube 6 mm long, petals 1.25 cm obovate, clawed, densely silky. Pod 10-15 cm, ligulate, flat.
Distribution : In evergreen forests of Chittagong and Sylhet.
Chemical Constituents : -
Uses : The plants are used in skin lesions.
Habit : Climber