Gmelina arborea Roxb.
| Synonym : | Gmelina arboreavar.canescens Haines Gmelina arborea var.glaucescens C.B.Clarke Gmelina sinuata Link |
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| Bangla Name : | Gamari,gamber(Chakma),Rammain-pang(Chak),Bol-kobab(Garo),Gamari gaith(tanchayga). |
| English Name : | White teak |
| Family : | Verbenaceae |
| Disease : | Bitter tonic, galactogogue, piles, abdominal pain, fever, leprosy, ulcer, gonorrhoea, cough, blood d |
| Description : | Deciduous trees, bark white or whitish-grey, smooth. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate; petiole tomentose; lamina broadly ovate or ovate, base cordate truncate or rounded, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous above and tomentose beneath, glaucous beneath, coriaceous. Flowers bisexual, yellow with orange-pink shade; calyx campanulate, 5 toothed, tomentose; corolla bilabiate, tube ventricose, lobes 5, subequal, obovate, obtuse, densely hairy; stamens 4, didynamous; anthers divaricate; ovary superior, syncarpous, glabrous, ovules 4; style slender, glabrous, unequally bifid. Fruit a drupe, ovoid, pulpy, pyrene bonny, ovoid with a deep depression, yellow; seeds 2-4, elliptic. |
| Distribution : | Cox’s Bazar,Chittagong Hill Tracts,Chittagong,Dhaka,Mymensingh. |
| Chemical Constituents : | Drupes contain butyric acid, tartaric acid in traces and resinous and saccharine substances. |
| Uses : | This plant is used as Bitter tonic.It is used in galactogogue, piles, abdominal pain, fever, leprosy, ulcer, gonorrhoea, cough, blood disease, jaundice, foot mud sore, worm, liver disease, scabies, astringent, diuretic, tonic, aphrodisiac, alterative, an |
| Habit : | Tree |