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Trema orientalis (L.)Blume
Synonym
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Celtis commersonii
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Family
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Ulmaceae
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Local name
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English- Oriental nettle
Malayalam-Amapotti
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Flowering and
fruiting period
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September-December
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Distribution
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Tropical Africa, Asia and Australia
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Distribution in
kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Dry and moist deciduous forests, also in
the plains
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IUCN Status
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LC
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Uses
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The leaves and the
bark are used to treat coughs, sore throats, asthma, bronchitis, gonorrhea,
yellow fever, toothache, and as an antidote to general poisoning. A bark
infusion is reportedly drunk to control dysentery and a leaf decoction is
used to deworm dogs.
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Key
botanical characters:
Dioecious trees, to 15 m high, bark thin,
greyish or bluish-green, rough, lenticellate; branchlets scabrous to
adpressed pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate,. Flowers unisexual, ,
greenish, in axillary fascicles or cymes; male flowers usually sessile; tepals
4 or 5, equal, , curved, ciliate; stamens 5; pistillode oblong; female
flowers : tepals unequal, ciliate; ovary superior, sessile, 1-celled, ovate;
style bifid, villous; stigma plumose. Fruit a drupe, globose, black; stylar
tip persistent; seed globose.
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