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Contents of this pageUKT: 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.
{sein-ta.pau} Smilax perfoliata Lour. 1-403
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KS-TMN 209
Identification characters:
A perennial woody climber, stems cylindrical, prickly, branchlets 4-angled;
rhizomes large, short, nodes thick, reddish brown; roots fibrous, long, slender,
prickles scattered, reddish brown. Leaves alternate, simple, polymorphous;
petioles sheathing in lower part with a pair of wings, tendrils arise
immediately above the sheath apex; laminae oblong or elliptic-ovate or ovate-lanceolate,
the bases rounded-cordate or cuneate, the margins entire, the tips mucronate, 5-
to 7-costate, reticulate, veins more prominent on the lower surface, thinly
coriaceous, glabrous. Inflorescences in axillary umbellate racemes, the umbels
1-3; bracts oblong. Flowers small, pedicellate, ebracteolate, unisexual,
dioecious, actinomorphic, trimerous, hypogynous. Perianth 3+3, 2-seriate,
apophyllous, the outer segments large, oblong, the inner small, lanceolate,
recurved. Staminate flowers: staments 6, polyandrous, the filaments long,
slender, the anthers dithecous, oblongoid, basifixed, dehiscence longitudinal,
white. Pistillode absent. Pistillate flowers: staminodes 6, polyandrous,
filiform, opposite the perianth. Pistil 1, ovary ovoid, 3-carpelled, syncarpous,
3-loculed, the placentation axile, the ovule solitary in each locule, the style
1, very short, the stigmas 3, recurved. Fruit a berry, globose, glabrous,
smooth; seeds 3, glabrous, endosperm horny.
Flowering and fruiting periods: April - August
Distribution: Common in tropical wet regions of Myanmar, may ascend up to 5000ft.
Parts used and uses: Fresh roots -- Arthritis; Lepromatous skin eruptions; Chronic skin disease; Paresis; Oedema; Purifies blood; As an analgesic. Root -- Amoebic dysentery; Disfunctional uterine haemorrhage; To bathe in the decoction of roots for Oedema and Paresis.
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