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Tamarindus indica

Scientific Name
Tamarindus indica
Family Name
Fabaceae
Common Names
Tamarind tree.
Local Names
Tetul. (Bangladesh), Imli (India), Asam jawa (Indonesia), Sampalok(Philippines), Siyambala (Sri Lanka)
Description
A large evergreen tree with dark grey, longitudinal fissured bark. Leaves paripinnate;leaflets 102-20 pairs, subsessile, oblong. Flowers yellow, striped with red in lax, fewflowered racemes at the ends of the branches. Fruits pods, brownish ash coloured,slightly curved, subcompressed. Seeds enclosed by a leathery membrane and pulpymesocarp, testa shining, hard. (India)
A robust herb, up to 3,5m tall, rhizome copiously branched, 2-4cm in diameter, lightred or pale yellow, fragrant; leaves oblong lanceolate, (20-)50(-60)cm x (4-)9(-15)cm,sub glabrous, glossy green, densely white-dotted, ligule truncate, 1cm long, denselypubescent, petiole 1-1,5cm long, hairy; inflorescence racemose, erect, many flowered,10-30cm x 5-7cm, pubescent, bracts ovate, up to 2cm long, each subtanding acincinnus of 2-6 flowers, bracteoles smaller; flowers fragrant, 3-4cm long, yellowwhite, calyx tubular, about 1cm long, white, corolla tube terete, about 1cm long, lobes3, recurved, oblong-lanceolate, 1.5cm x 0,6cm, margins ciliate, greenish-white,labellum spatulate, 1.5-2,5cm x 0,5-0,7cm, white veined with lilac to purple, clawed,margin undulate crenate, apex recurved inwards, lateral staminodes represented by 2subulate lobes at the base of the labellum, 7-8mm long, reddish, stamen erect, antherincurved, 2-2,5cm long; capsule globose to ellipsoid, 1-1,5cm in diameter, orange-redto wine red, black when mature, 2-3 seeded. A. galanga ocuurs in cultivation andsemi-wild near villages, or at the borders of secondary forest. (Indonesia)
Uses
Refrigerant, carminative, digestive, laxative, asthma, amenorrhea (Bangladesh)
Diarrhoea, asthma, amenorrhea, gingivitis, ulcers, swellings, fever, scalding, wounds,jaundice, scabies, tumours, ringworms, boils, smallpox (India)
Cough, ulcers (Indonesia)
Diarrhoea, pulmonary disorders, indigestion (Philippines)
Laxative, anthelmintic, diaphoretic, boils, rheumatism, swellings, haemorrhoids,carminative, liver congestion, emollient, jaundice, boils, pimples, purgative,constipation, leprosy (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Indonesia - Sukamulya
Philippines - LBES Medicinal Genebank, ERDB
Sri Lanka - Naula, Bibila, Kanneliya, Ritigala, Meegahak, Pinna, Haldummu,Pallekale, Ganewatta
Remarks
Tamarindus indica (GRIN)

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