by Kyaw Soe and Tin Myo Ngwč, Forest Resource Environment Development and
Conservation Association (FREDA), Series 1, 2004, ISBN 974-91986-0-3
Copied by U Kyaw Tun, and staff of TIL
for staff and students of TIL. Not for sale.
Main Index of DB |
Top
Index of Collected papers |
Agri.Dept.2000: Akshara |
Science names |
Family names
Contents of this page
UKT: Nagathein references are given to check the Burmese-Myanmar names. * shows where there is no agreement in Burmese name but when the plant is identifiable from botanical name.
{ko-ran°-kri:} Crinum asiaticum L. 1-086
{ga.moan:kwin:hto:} Crinum latifolium L. 1-315
Main Index of DB |
Top
Index of Collected papers |
Agri.Dept.2000: Akshara |
Science names
|
Family names
Contents of this page
KS-TMN 038
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
Distribution: -- Grows wild or planted in tropical regions of Myanmar
Parts 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
Main
Index of DB | Top
Contents of this page
KS-TMN 041
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
Distribution: Grows wild and cultivated throughout Myanmar.
Parts used and uses: Rhizome -- Diarrhoea; Pyrexia; Arthritis; Emesis; Otalgia; Otic disease
Main
Index of DB | Top
Contents of this page
End of TIL file