Cyclea barbata Miers


Synonym : -
Bangla Name : Thangbandri(Barma),Patalpur(Chakma,Tanchangya),Towinamy(Marma),Chitting(Tripura)
English Name : -
Family : Menispermaceae
Disease : Fever, headache, stomach pain, itch, allergy, asthma, epilepsy, gastric ulcer, lipoma, stomachache, tetanus, throat sore
Description : Slender, climbing shrubs, branchlets hispid when young, glabrous when old. Leaves alternate, ovate or deltoid-ovate, truncate or rounded at base, obtuse or acuminate at apex mucronate, hispid to subglabrous above, tomentose beneath; petioles long, hispid. Male inflorescences axillary or cauliflorous long puberulous cymes; flowers long, pedicelled, with turbinate puberulous greenish calyx lobes and gamopetalous obtusely lobed glabrous corolla; synandrium long, exserted. Female inflorescences similar to male ones but broader; flowers sessile, in dense heads; sepals 2 obovate or rhomboid, pilose outside; petals 2, reniform, glabrous; ovary ellipsoid, curved, densely pilose; stigma 3-laciniate. Drupes obovoid to globose, puberulous; endocarp with 3 rows of papilliform tubercles on both faces; seeds curved."
Distribution : Eastern parts
Chemical Constituents : -
Uses : Fever, headache, stomach pain, itch, allergy, asthma, epilepsy, gastric ulcer, lipoma, stomachache, tetanus, throat sore
Habit : Shrub