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Jatropha curcas

Scientific Name
Jatropha curcas
Family Name
Euphorbiaceae
Common Names
Barbados nut, hysic
Local Names
Bagh verenda, ban verenda, jamalgota, arenda. (Bangladesh), Bagbherenda(India), Jarak pagar (Indonesia), Jarak belanda, jarak keling, jarak pagar (Malaysia),Tagumbau-na-parau (iloko),tuba (igorot),tubang-bakod (tagalog) (Philippines), Weta endaru (Sri Lanka)
Description
A soft-wooded, deciduous shrubs, 1-3m tall; bark greenish-yellow, smooth, often withscars of fallen leaves. Leaves broadly ovate or orbicular, entire or shallowly, 3-5lobed, glabrous. Flowers in terminal or extra-axillary, paniculate cymes. Capsulesglobose or broadly ovoid, yellow, smooth. (India)
A perennial herb, 25-200 cm tall, with quadrangular, poorly ramified, ascending stem.Leaves decussately opposite, ovate or rhombic, 2-9(-12)cm x 1,5-5cm, cuneate at base,acute or acuminate at apex, serrate, glabrous or minutely pubescent, glandular-punctate; petiole 0,5-2(-4,5)cm long; stipules absent. Inflorescence an opposed cymearranged in terminal racemes, 7-29cm long. Flowers pedicellate; calyx 2,5-4,5mmlong (up to 12mm in fruit), bilabiate, gland-dotted; corollla 10-20mm long, tubular,bilabiate, white or (pale) lilac; stamens 4, long-protrudding from the corolla tube;ovary superior, style long-protruding, slender, with enlarged, club-shaped andshallowly cleft stigma. Fruit splitting into 4 oblong-ovoid nutlets, 1,5-2mm long,brownish, rugose. (Indonesia)
A somewhat succulent shrub or small tree up to 5(-8)m tall with pink latex, barksmooth, shiny, greenish-brown or yellowish-grey, peeling off in papery scales; leafblade broadly ovate in outline, usually shallowly (3-)5(-7)-lobed or occasionally notlobed, 7-14(-18)cm x 5.5-14(-18)cm, shallowly to deeply cordate at base, sparselypuberulous along the veins below at first, otherwise (Malaysia)
A succulent shrub or small tree with pink latex; leaf blade broadly ovate;inflorescence subcorymbose, male flowers greenish-yellow, female flowers with 4mmlong calyx lobes, petals about 6mm; fruits broadly ellipsoid; seed black. (Philippines)
Uses
Purgative, swellings, tooth ache, bleeding, scabies, eczema, ringworms, rheumatism,herpes, pruritus (Bangladesh)
Tooth ache, rheumatism, sores, wounds, ulcers, scabies, eczema, ringworms,dysentery, thirst, urinary discharges, abdominal ailments, biliousness, anaemia, heartdiseases (India)
Cathartic, anthelmintic, gout, skin diseases, ear disease, tooth ache, eczema, sores,ulcers, scabies (Indonesia)
Cathartic, poisoning, anthelmintic, gout, skin diseases, vulnerary, ear disease, toothache, eczema, scabies, styptic, sores, ulcers, cuts, abrasions, coagulating the blood,strengthen the gums (Malaysia)
Swollen breasts, diuretic, fractures, diarrhoea (Philippines)
Abrasions, sprains, worms, dislocations, dropsy, eczema, guinea worms, gum boils,lactagogue, paralysis, purgative, rheumatism, ringworms, scabies, diarrhoea, sciatica,sores, styptic, haemorrhage (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Indonesia - Cimanggu, Sukamulya
Philippines - LBES Medicinal Genebank, ERDB
Sri Lanka - Naula, Bibila, Kanneliya, Meegahak, Pinna, Haldummu
Remarks
Jatropha curcas (GRIN)

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