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Crataeva religiosa

Scientific Name
Crataeva religiosa
Family Name
Capparaceae
Common Names
Local Names
Lunuwarana (Sri Lanka)
Description
A small tree with a grey bark, much branched, the young twigs marked prominentlywith leaf scars; leaves alternate, 3-foliate, deciduous, leaflets shortly stalked, 6.5-15.5cm long, 6.5-9.5cm broad, broadly oval, acuminate, tapering to base, entire,glabrous, the lateral ones oblique, petioles 7.5-14cm long; flowers bisexual, large,greenish-white appearing with the new leaves, 5cm diameter, arising from axils ofbud scales below the new leaves forming corymbose clusters, pedicels stout, glabrous,3.7cm long; sepals 4, free, distant, small, ovate- acute, inserted on the edge of a large,lobed disc; petals 4, 1.9-2.5cm long, rounded-o’val with a long narrow claw; stamensindefinite, inserted on the base of a long gynophore; gynophore 2.5-3.7cm longexceeding the stamens; ovary superior, small, ovoid, unilocular with 2 parietalplacentas, ovules numerous; fruit a globosc berry on the thickened woody gynophorenow nearly 5cm long, pericarp hard and smooth; seeds several embedded in the pulp.Flowers during December. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Kidney stone, colic, burning sensations, diuretic, dropsy, enlarged abdomen, fever,gastric disorders (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Naula, Bibila, Kanneliya, Meegahak, Pinna, Ganewatta
Remarks
Crataeva religiosa (GRIN)

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