Bauhinia MACROSTACHYA Wall.
| Synonym : | Bauhinia macrostachya Wall. |
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| 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 |