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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.
{krak-ma.oak} Ardisia humilis Vahl.1-171
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Botanical name: Ardisia humilis Vahl Symb. Bot. 111 40. 1794. Burmese-Myanmar name in Nagathein :1-171 Photos: |
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Identification characters:
A shrub; younger stems cylindrical, glabrous. Leaves alternate, simple;
exstipulate; petioles short, stout; laminae elliptic or obovate-elliptic, the
bases cuneate or obtuse, the margins entire, the tips shortly acuminate,
unicostate, reticulate, the surfaces glabrous, coriaceous. Inflorescences in
axillary corymbose cymes; bracts deciduoud. Flowers ebracteolate, pedicellate,
bisexual, actinomorphic, pentamerous, hypogynous. Calyx synsepalous, 5-sect,
campanulate, the lobes elliptic, petaloid, pinkish, persistent and accrescent
and closely pressed to fruit. Corolla synpetalous, 5-partite, twisted to the
right in bud, the tubes short, the lobes acute, pink. Androecium polyandrous,
stamens 5, epipetalous, opposite the corolla lobes, the filaments very short,
inserted, the anthers dithecous, ovoid-lanceolate, basifixed, introrse,
dehiscence longitudinal. Pistil 1, ovary ovoid, 5-carpelled, syncarpous,
1-loculed, placentation free central, the ovules 10 in the locule, the style 1,
stout, the stigma simple. Fruit a drupe, globose with peristent style, obscurely
depressed, exocarp fleshy, endocarp stony, bright scarlet; seed 1, globose,
endosperm copious.
Flowering period: August-September
Fruiting period: October-January
Distribution: Grows wild in moist and shady places of Myanmar
Parts used and uses: Leaf and fruit -- Chronic dysentery; Haemoptysis; Promote spermatogenesis; Burning sensation; Metrorrhagia:; Biliousness; Carminative; Heal boils and carbuncles; Gives energy; Dysentery.
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