| Slender Spiked Gouania |
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Botanical name: Gouania leptostachya Family: Rhamnaceae (Ber family)
Synonyms: Gouania tiliaefolia
Synonyms: Gouania tiliaefolia
Slender Spiked Gouania is a thornless climbing shrub found in
sub-Himalayan terrain in NE India, Nepal and S China, in thickets at low
and medium altitudes. The leaves are alternate, somewhat hairy, ovate,
6-10 cm long and 4-5 cm wide, with pointed tip and slightly heart-shaped
base. The flowers are small greenish or whitish, and borne in slender
racemes or panicles in leaf axils and at the end of branches. The fruit is
smooth, 1-1.2 cm in diameter, crowned by remnants of persistent sepal cup,
3-winged. The fruit splits open into 3 nearly rounded winged mericarps.
Slender Spiked Gouania is found in the Himalayas, from Kumaun to Assam,
at altitudes of 200-2000 m, and also in Burma, Indo-China, Malaysia.
Flowering: August-September.
Medicinal uses:
The leaves contain an alkaloid, and that they
are used for washing ulcers. The bark is used as a shampoo. It is also
either alone or with other drugs to stupefy fishes in rivers. The leaves
are used by Lepchas as a poultice for sores.
Medicinal uses:
The leaves contain an alkaloid, and that they
are used for washing ulcers. The bark is used as a shampoo. It is also
either alone or with other drugs to stupefy fishes in rivers. The leaves
are used by Lepchas as a poultice for sores. | Identification credit: Navendu Pāgé, Prashant Awale, Amit Kumar | Photographed in FRI, Dehradun & Mizoram. |
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