Holarrhena pubescens Wall.ex G.Don
| Synonym : | Chonemorpha pubescens (Wall.) G.Don Echites adglutinatus Burm.f. Holarrhena codaga G.Don Holarrhena |
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| Bangla Name : | Lom kurchi,Lathofang(Chakma),Latubang(Marma). |
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| Family : | Apocynaceae |
| Disease : | Abdominal pain, ameobic dysentery, anaemia, blood dysentery, diarrhoea, eclampsia, fever, gastric tu |
| Description : | Small deciduous trees; to 8 m high; bark rough, pale brown, to 8 mm, exfoliates in small flakes; blaze creamy yellow; latex milky white. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole 4-6 mm, pubescent, stout; lamina 7-18 x 3-12 cm, broadly ovate, ovate-oblong or ovate-lanceolate; base obtuse, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous or puberulent beneath, membranous; lateral nerves 10-14 pairs, prominent, arched, puberulous; intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, creamy-white, slightly fragrant, in terminal and axillary corymbose cymes, appear along with new leaves; calyx lobes 5, 2.5 mm long, oblong-lanceolate, ciliate, glandular within at base; corolla salvar shaped, lobes 5, oblong, obtuse, as long as the tube, tube 1.3 cm long, puberulous, mouth with a ring of hairs; stamens 5, included, attached towards the base of the corolla tube, anthers sagitate; disc absent; ovaries 2, apocarpous; ovules many in each carpel, style 2 mm long; stigma fusiform, bifid. Fruit of 2 terete elongated follicular mericarps connected at the tip and then free, 25 x 1 cm; seeds 8 mm, oblong, with tuft of silky brown hairs at the apex. |
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| Chemical Constituents : | Bark contains Lquebrachitol; alkaloids dihydroisoconessimine and 3 a-aminoconan-5-ene; base kurcholessine; 7a-OH-conessine and holonamine. Holantosines A and B. |
| Uses : | This plant is used in Abdominal pain, ameobic dysentery, anaemia, blood dysentery, diarrhoea, eclampsia, fever, gastric tumor, gastric ulcer, worm, hyper acidity, leprosy, lipoma, oedema, piles, rheumatic arthritis, rheumatism, sore in mouth, spleenomegal |
| Habit : | small tree |