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Medicinal Plants of Myanmar

Sterculiaceae

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Family: Sterculiaceae 2 entries
• Heritiera fomes • {ka.na.so}  
• Mansonia gagei • {ka.ra.mak}

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Heritiera fomes

Family:  Sterculiaceae

Burmese-Myanmar transcript names:
• Agri.Dept.2000 02-0032:  {ka.na.so}
• Chklist:
• LSR : NL
• FAO : NL
• KS-TMN : NL
• Nagathein: NL
• UHM : NL

 

Myanmar-Script Spelling
• Official Myanmar Dictionaries:
{ka.na.so} -  -- TravPo-M-Dict 003
{ka.na.so} - kind of tree found in coastal areas, Heritiera formes -- Myan-Engl-Dict 005

Hindi :
Sanskrit :  

English common name used in Myanmar :
• Agri.Dept.2000 02-0032:  Mangrove
• Chklist:
• LSR : NL
• FAO : NL
• KS-TMN : NL
• Nagathein: NL
• UHM : NL

 

Picture :
• Leader from: http://www.indian-ocean.org/bioinformatics/mangrove/MANGCD/Sterc3.htm 
• Photos: leaves ; Inflorescence
from http://www.indian-ocean.org/bioinformatics/mangrove/MANGCD/fightml/PF19.htm

 

Plant identification characters :

• Evergreen tall medium tree, attaining up to 25 m height. Leaf alternate, simple, stipulate, stipules in pairs in each node, petiolate. Petioles 1 cm long, terete, gray, slightly woody, inconspicuous. Lamina elliptic lanceolate, entire, acute, tapering, coriaceous, slightly hard, dorsiventral. Dorsal surface pale green glabrous, ventral surface whitish gray, rough surface with scallt indumentum, unicostate reticulate venation. Inflorescence mixed, ebracteate, peduncle bent and pendulous, much branched. Flowers ebracteate, regular, unisexual, achlamydous, small, pedicellate. Pedicel 0.65 cm long, terete, pubiscent, soft, easily dissociate from the thalamus, 0.1 cm long. Sepals four - five, gamosepalous, globose, cup-shaped, tube beneath, upper 4-5 apical lobes. Lobes ovate, entire, acute, pubescent, both inner and outer surface leathery. Petals absent. Male flower : Stamens 5, fused to form cylinder dumbel known as pistilloid and to form globose structure. Anther distinctly bifurcated with apical white beak, yellow, longitudinally dehiscent, minute, introrse, inserted. Female flower : Carpels 4-5, apocarpous, loosely attached, 0.25 cm long, each ovary flattened, superior, closely aggregated to form globose structure, single chambered with 1 ovule, basal placentation. Style terminal long, white but after maturation it becomes brown. Fruit a cluster of woody indehiscent keeled or winged ripe carpels, knobby with ventral ridge together with a transverse ridge. Seeds solitary without vivipary but can float on the tidal water.  Economic Importance: Timber is much superior than teak and used for boat building and other domestic furniture. It check soil erosion in the tidal forests and loosely consolidated silted up soil.
-- http://www.indian-ocean.org/bioinformatics/mangrove/MANGCD/fightml/PF19.htm

 

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Mansonia gagei

Family:  Sterculiaceae

Ref. Burmese-Myanmar transcripts
• Agri.Dept.2000 02-0045: {ka.ra.mak}
• Chklist:
• LSR 015: {ka.la.mak}
• FAO : NL
• KS-TMN: NL
• Nagathein 061: {ka.la.mak}
• UHM : NL

Myanmar-Script Spelling
• Official Myanmar Dictionaries :
{ka.ra.mak}- - TravPo-M-Dict 004
{ka.ra.mak} - n. bastard sandlewood. Mansonia gagei (Malay: kalambak) - Myan-Engl-Dict 005
{ka.ra.mak nan°.tha} - Myan-Ortho 003

Chklist data :
 

Hindi :
Sanskrit :

English common name used in Myanmar :
• Agri.Dept.2000 02-0045: Sandal wood
• Chklist:
• LSR 015: Bastard sandalwood
• FAO : NL
• KS-TMN: NL
• Nagathein 061: {ka.la.mak}
• UHM : NL

 

Picture :
• Leaders: bw - Nagathein; colour - LSR

 

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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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