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 |