| Synonym : | Corchorus brachycarpusGuill. & Perr.
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| Bangla Name : | Jongli pat,Bilnalita,Banpat,Binalita |
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| English Name : | - |
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| Family : | Tiliaceae |
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| Disease : | Tonic, anthelmintic, astringent to the bowels, restorative; useful in ulcers, tumour, ascites, piles; cures dysentery, cooling, laxative, stimulant, tonic, aphrodisiac, alexipharmac, pain, stomach troubles, skin diseases |
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| Description : | Annual, suberect, herb. Stem woody, with scaly bark, glabrous. Leaves 3-costate, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate to narrowly ovate, glabrous, serrate, basal serratures not prolonged into filiform appendages, obtuse; petiole hirsute; stipules subulate-filiform. Cyme a fascicle of 2-5 (-8) flowers, antiphyllous, very shortly pedunculate. Flowers yellow, bracts minute. Sepals linear-oblong, apiculate. Petals oblong-obovate, as long as sepals. Stamens as many as or twice the number of petals. Carpels 3; ovary oblong-ovate to linear, 3-loculed, hairy; style short, stigma capitate. Capsules 2-5(-8) in each fascicle, sessile, 3-loculed. Seeds wedge shaped, angular, black, obliquely truncate at both ends. |
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| Distribution : | - |
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| Chemical Constituents : | - |
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| Uses : | Tonic, anthelmintic, astringent to the bowels, restorative; useful in ulcers, tumour, ascites, piles; cures dysentery, cooling, laxative, stimulant, tonic, aphrodisiac, alexipharmac, pain, stomach troubles, skin diseases |
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| Habit : | Herb |
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