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Botanical name: Allophylus serratus Family: Sapindaceae (Soapberry family)
Synonyms: Allophylus cobbe var. serratus, Ornitrophe serrata, Schmidelia serrata
Synonyms: Allophylus cobbe var. serratus, Ornitrophe serrata, Schmidelia serrata
Toothed-Leaf Allophylus is a straggling shrubs with
branchlets warty. Leaves trifoliolate. Leaflets are up to 18 x 9 cm,
ovate, toothed, tapering at tip, narrowed at base; nerves about 13
pairs; leaflet-stalk 3-7 mm long; leaf-stalk 8-10 cm long. Flowers are
borne 3-5-together, 4 mm across; flower-stalk 3 mm long, jointed.
Sepals are 1.5 mm in diameter, round, petals 2 x 1 mm, spoon-shaped;
lobes of disc round. Drupes are 4 mm across, puberulus. Toothed-Leaf
Allophylus is found in India and Sri Lanka. Flowering: July-October.
Medicinal uses:
Toothed-Leaf Allophylus is
known to possess various therapeutic properties. The plant has a
distinction of being used in Ayurveda as an anti-inflammatory and
carminative drug, and has been used in elephantiasis, oedema, fracture
of bones, several gastrointestinal disorders including dyspepsia,
anorexia and diarrhoea.
Medicinal uses:
Toothed-Leaf Allophylus is
known to possess various therapeutic properties. The plant has a
distinction of being used in Ayurveda as an anti-inflammatory and
carminative drug, and has been used in elephantiasis, oedema, fracture
of bones, several gastrointestinal disorders including dyspepsia,
anorexia and diarrhoea. | Identification credit: Bubai Bera | Photographed in Chilkigarh, West Bengal. |
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