1162
|
Synonym |
: |
Barringtonia longiracemosa C.T.White |
|
Family |
: |
LECYTHIDACEAE |
|
Local name |
: |
English-
Fish-killer tree Malayalam
-Samudrachampa |
|
Flowering and
fruiting period |
: |
August-March |
|
Distribution |
: |
Indo-Malesia to Polynesia |
|
Distribution
in kerala |
: |
Kottayam,
Alappuzha, Kasaragode, Kollam, |
|
Habitat |
: |
Along
banks of backwaters and mangrove forests |
|
Uses |
: |
Fruit are used against malaria, cough,
asthma, jaundice, headache, eye inflammation, diarrhoea |
|
Key Botanical Characters: Small to medium trees. Leaves alternate, tufted at the ends of stout twigs, 15 x 4 cm, obovate, oval, tapering to base, glabrous and shiny; subsessile. Flowers in long, pendulous, mostly terminal, 25-30 cm racemes; pedicels 10-15 mm; bracts triangular. Calyx with 2-5 unequal lobes. Petals 4, oblong or oblong-oval, spreading, pink to red in colour. Stamens numerous in 5 or 6 whorls of which the innermost one is staminodal. Ovary 2-4-celled; fruit ovoid, 5-8 x 2-4 cm.  . |
||
