| Toothed-Leaf Limonia |
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Botanical name: Naringi crenulata Family: Rutaceae (Citrus family)
Synonyms: Limonia crenulata, Hesperethusa crenulata
Synonyms: Limonia crenulata, Hesperethusa crenulata
Toothed-Leaf Limonia is a small tree up to 8 m tall, with trunk
carrying branched thorns; bark dark grey, smooth; blaze yellowish.
Young branchlets are round, hairless, thorny. Leaves are compound,
compound, up to 15 cm long, alternate, spiral; axis with
inverted-lanceshaped wings, hairless. Leaflets are 5-7, opposite,
stalkless, 2-4.5 x 1-1.5 cm, elliptic to obovate, tip notched or blunt,
base pointed, margin crenulate or irregularly minutely toothed. Flowers
are borne in leaf-axils in umbel-like clusters, flower-stalk 1 cm long.
Flowers are white, flower-stalk 8-10 mm long; sepals 4, free or united
at base, ovate-round, glandular; petals 4, free, elliptic or oblong,
white, glandular, hairless; stamens 8, nearly equal, free, inserted
round the disc; filaments subulate; anthers yellow. Berry, 6-8 mm
across, is spherical; seeds 1-4. Toothed-Leaf Limonia is found in India, Laos,
Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Vietnam.
Medicinal uses:
Bark decoction made into a
paste and applied on boils. Roots crushed with onion, garlic and
calcium made into a paste applied for rheumatism; root bark made into a
paste and applied in body pain; powdered roots purgative and stomachic.
Leaves soaked in buttermilk and consumed to get relief from ulcer.
Bark, leaves and roots ground and made into a paste given orally to
increase fertility among women. Roots, leaves and fruits purgative,
sudorific, in colic, epilepsy, heart troubles. Fruit and roots
anthelmintic, astringent, for diarrhea and dysentery; dried powdered
fruits stimulant, tonic.
Medicinal uses:
Bark decoction made into a
paste and applied on boils. Roots crushed with onion, garlic and
calcium made into a paste applied for rheumatism; root bark made into a
paste and applied in body pain; powdered roots purgative and stomachic.
Leaves soaked in buttermilk and consumed to get relief from ulcer.
Bark, leaves and roots ground and made into a paste given orally to
increase fertility among women. Roots, leaves and fruits purgative,
sudorific, in colic, epilepsy, heart troubles. Fruit and roots
anthelmintic, astringent, for diarrhea and dysentery; dried powdered
fruits stimulant, tonic. | Identification credit: A. Lalithamba, Nidhan Singh | Photographed in Tamil Nadu & Morni Hills, Haryana. |
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