Microcos paniculata L.


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Bangla Name : Kasha phal,Potka
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Family : Tiliaceae
Disease : Jaundice, fever, boils, bone fracture, bone marrow, bone sprain, dysmenorrhoea, gastric tumor, headache, lipoma, nari bat, paratyphoid, rheumatic arthritis, rheumatism
Description : A large shrub or medium sized tree. Young shoots stellate hairy. Leaves 3-costate, elliptic-lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, hairy; stipules linear-lanceolate, c. 8-10 mm long, acute-acuminate, stellate hairy. Cymes shortly pedunculate, 2-3-flowered, arranged in a terminal or axillary, hairy panicle. Flowers yellowish-white; pedicels small, hairy; bracts subulate,caducous. Sepals linear-oblong, densely hairy outside, cucullate at the apex. Petals oblong. Stamens numerous, filaments hairy towards the base. Ovary subglobose, subglabrous, unlobed; style glabrous, stigma 3-lobed. Drupe unlobed, subglobose-globose, , glabrous, blackish-purple.
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Uses : Jaundice, fever, boils, bone fracture, bone marrow, bone sprain, dysmenorrhoea, gastric tumor, headache, lipoma, nari bat, paratyphoid, rheumatic arthritis, rheumatism
Habit : Shrub