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Bauhinia variegata

Scientific Name
Bauhinia variegata
Family Name
Fabaceae
Common Names
Local Names
Kachnar (India), Koboleela (Sri Lanka)
Description
A medium sized tree. Leaves deeply cordate, 11-15 nerved, sub-coriaceous, celftthrough about a quarter, lobes obtuse. Flowers are large, fragrant, sessile or shortlypedicelled in few flowered lateral corymbs. Calyx tube slender, the limb isspathaceous. Petals obovate, four white and one with red or purple lateral veins.Fertile stamens 5, rarely 3 or 4. pods are hard, flat, glabrous, slightly falcate, dehiscent.Seeds 10-15 per pod. (India)
Uses
Anti inflammatory, skin diseases, ulcers, dysentery, piles, worms, antidote, snakepoisoning, dyspepsia (India)
Anti diarrhea, dropsy, renal, dyspepsia, fistula, glandular enlargement, leprosy, piles,skin diseases, slimming (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Naula, Bibila, Kanneliya, Meegahak, Pinna
Remarks
Bauhinia variegata (GRIN)

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