• Crinum asiaticum • {koý-rän-kri:}
• Crinum latifolium • {ga.moan:kwing:hto:}
• Crinum spp.
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• Crinum asiaticum
• {koý-rän-kri:}
• Crinum latifolium
• {ga.moan:kwing:hto:}
• Crinum spp.
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Burmese-Myanmar transcript names:
• Agri.Dept.2000 03-0078:
{koý-rän-kri:}
• Chklist: Koyan-gyi, Poison bulb
• LSR 020:
{koý-rän-kri:}
• FAO : NL
• KS-TMN 038: Koyan-gyi
• Nagathein 1-086:
{koý-rän-kri:}.
• UHM : NL
Myanmar-Script Spelling
• Official Myanmar Dictionaries
{ko.rän-kri:} -
-- MMDict020
{ko.rän-kri:}
/|kou jan gji:|/ - flowering plant of lily family, Crinum asiaticum --
MEDict026
Data above updated (070309) in Akshara index: r1c1ka.htm
Chklist data: 070309
• Crinum asiaticum L. . Habit: Herb. Distribution: Rakhine,
Yangon. Common Names: Koyan-gyi, Poison bulb
Hindi :
• {naag-da.ma.ni} -- Nagathein
Sanskrit
English common name used in Myanmar :
• Agri.Dept.2000 03-0078: Poison bulb
• Chklist:
• LSR 020: Poison bulb
• FAO -- NL
• KS-TMN 038: Poison bulb
• Nagathein 1-086: Poison bulb
• UHM -- NL
Picture :
• Leaders: left - LSR; right -
http://nature.jardin.free.fr/image5/rg_crinum_asiaticum.jpg
• Photos: left -- habit with flowers,
right --habit with fruits -- KS-TMN
Plant identification characters
• A perennial herb; rootstock large, tunicated bulb, oblongoid,
narrowed into a neck, propagate mostly by bulbels, subtended by disciform
internodal zones. Roots adventitious, fleshy, white. Aerial stems, short,
stout, erect. Leaves basal; exstipulate; petioles sheathing; laminae
linear-lanceolate, the bases sheathing, the margins entire, obscurely undulate,
the tips shortly acuminate, flat, 7- to 14-costate, parallel, bright green, glabrous.
Inflorescences in umbels, the umbels 15- to 30-flowered, borne on a solid
cylindrical scape, inserted on the neck of bulb; bracts 2, oblong-lanceolate,
spathaceous. Flowers showy, fragrant, the bracteoles filiform,
pedicellate, bisexual, actinomorphic, trimerous, epigynous. Perianth synphyllous,
salverform, the lobes 6 in 2 whorls, linear, nearly as long as the tube,
recurved or revolute, white, the tubes cylindric, slender, greenish-white;
Androecium polyandrous, stamens 6 in 2 whorls, epipetalous, arising from the
throat of perianth tube, reddish, the filaments filiform, shorter than the
perianth lobes, exserted, the anthers dithecous, oblongoid, dorsifixed,
versatile, introrse, dehiscence longitudinal. Pistil 1, ovary oblongoid,
3 -carpelled, syncarpous, 3 -loculed, the placentation axile, the ovules
2 per locule, the style 1, filiform, declinate, the stigma minute, subcapitate.
Fruit a 3-valued capsule, subglobose, beaked by the fleshy base of perianth,
dehiscing irregularly; seeds globose, endosperm copious, fleshy.
Flowering and fruiting period:-- Throughout the year. -- KS-TMN
Distribution in Myanmar
• Grows wild or planted in tropical regions of Myanmar -- KS-TMN
Part used and uses
• Bulb and leaf --
Splenomegaly;
Ascites; Biliousness; Expectorant; As an antidote for poisons;
Metrorrhagia; Abdominal tumours;
Dysuria; Heal boils and carbuncles; Cathartic;
As an antidote for snake venom and spider toxin. Bulb -- Heals sores.
Leaf -- Oedema; Back-ache; Knee-ache -- KS-TMN
Constituents
Burmese-Myanmar transcript names:
• Agri.Dept.2000 14-0350:
{ga.moan:kwing:hto:}
• Chklist: Gamon-kwin-htoe, Knotted lily, Poison bulb
• LSR : NL
• FAO : NL
• KS-TMN 41: Gamone-kwin-htoe
• Nagathein 1-315:
{ga.moan:kwing:hto:}
• UHM : NL
Myanmar-Script Spelling
• Official Myanmar Dictionaries :
{ga.moan:} -
- MMDict 064
{ga.moan:} /|gamoun:|/ - n. generic term for some herbs with aromatic tubers (those
are mostly kaempferia from ginger family but also include a few from
orchid, and lily families - MEDict 084
Data above updated (070309) in Akshara index: r1c3ga.htm
Chklist data: 070309
• Crinum latifolium L. . Habit: Herb . Distribution: Reported
from Myanmar. Common Names: Gamon-kwin-htoe, Knotted lily, Poison bulb
Hindi :
• {hsuhk-dar-yhan} -- Nagathein
Sanskrit
English common name used in Myanmar :
• Agri.Dept.2000 14-0350: Poison bulb
• FAO : NL
• LSR : NL
• KS-TMN 41: Knotted lily, Poison bulb
• Nagathein 1-315: NG
• UHM : NL
Picture
• Leader from KS-TMN
• Photos:left -- close up of flowers and fruits,
right --habit with flowers and fruits -- KS-TMN
Plant identification characters
• A perennial herb; rootstock large, tunicated subglobose bulb, narrowed into a short stout neck. Roots adventitious, fleshy, white. Aerial stems short, stout, erect. Leaves basal, numerous; exstipulate; petioles sheathing; laminae lorate, thin, the bases sheathing, the margins entire, the tips acuminate, bright green, keeled and waved, the surfaces glabrous, the margins subscabrid. Inflorescences in umbels, the umbels 10- to 20- flowered, borne on a solid compressed scape, inserted on the neck of bulb, as long as the leaves, purplish; bracts 2, spathaceous, oblong--lanceolate, reddish or purple. Flowers showy, fragrant, bracteolate, pedicellate, bisexual, actinomorphic, trimerous, epigynous. Perianth synphyllous, salverform, the lobes 6 in 2 whorls, elliptic-oblong or elliptic-lanceolate, as long as or shorter than the tube, much longer than stamens, white or with reddish purple tinge towards the centre or wholly reddish purple, the tubes cylindric, curved. Androecium polyandrous, stamens 6 in 2 whorls, epipetalous on the throuat of perianth tube, the filaments filiform, declinate, the anthers dithecous, oblongoid, dorsifixed, introrse, dehiscence longitudinal. Pistil 1, ovary oblongoid, 3 -carpelled, syncarpous, 3 -loculed, the placentation axile, the ovules 5-6, superposed in each locule, the style filiform, longer than stamens, the stigma minute, subcapitate. Fruit a 3-valved capsule, subglobose, beaked by the fleshy base of perianth, dehiscing irregularly; seeds globose, endosperm copious, fleshy. Flowering and fruiting periods: December-March -- KS-TMN
Flowers, white with sweet smell. It is of the same family as
{koy-rän-ngèý} (Crinum defixum). Leaves similar to those of sugar cane,
and seem to be inserting themselves into a leaf-sheath. -- Nagathein, free
translation by UKT.
Distribution in Myanmar
• Grows wild and cultivated
throughout Myanmar. -- KS-TMN
Part used and uses
• Rhizome -- Diarrhoea; Pyrexia; Arthritis;
Emesis;
Otalgia;
Otic disease -- KS-TMN
Constituents
Results of search for 'Crinum' in the Checklist of Plants of
Myanmar, U.S. National Herbarium, 9 Mar 2007.
• Crinum amoenum Roxb. . Habit: Herb . Distribution: Mandalay, Yangon .
Common Names: Khatta
• Crinum asiaticum L. . Habit: Herb. Distribution: Rakhine,
Yangon. Common Names: Koyan-gyi, Poison bulb
• Crinum defixum Ker Gawl. . Habit: Herb. Distribution: Cultivated .
Common Names: Koyan-nge
• Crinum ensifolium Roxb. . Habit: Herb. Distribution: Ayeyarwady,
Bago. Common Names: Ko-yan-gyi
• Crinum erythrophyllum Carey ex Herb. . Habit: Herb. Distribution:
Reported from Myanmar
• Crinum giganteum Andrews . Habit: Herb . Distribution: Cultivated
• Crinum latifolium L. . Habit: Herb . Distribution: Reported
from Myanmar. Common Names: Gamon-kwin-htoe, Knotted lily, Poison bulb
• Crinum lorifolium Roxb. . Habit: Herb . Distribution: Reported from
Myanmar
• Crinum pratense Herb. . Habit: Herb . Distribution: Reported from
Myanmar . Common Names: Padaing
• Crinum stenophyllum Baker . Habit: Herb . Distribution: Mon,
Taninthayi
• Crinum wattii Baker . Habit: Herb . Distribution: Mon
Entry format: Botanical name / Family / Ref. Burmese-Myanmar
transcripts • Agri.Dept.2000 :
• Chklist: • LSR : • FAO : • KS-TMN:
• Nagathein :
• UHM :/ Myanmar-Script Spelling (
• Official Myanmar Dictionaries : - TravPo-M-Dict - Myan-Engl-Dict -
Myan-Ortho / Chklist data / Hindi /
Sanskrit / English common name used in Myanmar /
Picture / Plant identification characters /
Distribution in Myanmar / Part used and uses /
Constituents /
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