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Terminalia arjuna

Scientific Name
Terminalia arjuna
Family Name
Combretaceae
Common Names
Arjun.
Local Names
Arjun. (Bangladesh), Arjun sadad (India), Kumbuk (Sri Lanka)
Description
A large tree with smooth, greenish white bark. Leaves sub-opposite, oblong, orelliptic-oblong, pale brown beneath. Flower sessile, in short axillary spikes or interminal panicles. Drupes ovoid or obovoid-oblong, fibrous, woody, glabrous, anddark brown with 5 hard projecting wings. (India)
A very !argr tree with a huttress spreading base and horizontally spreading branches,bark pinkish or greenish-white, smooth, flaking off in large flat pieces, young twigsfinely pubescent leaves simple, opposite or sub-opposite without stipules, 7.5-15cmlong, 4cm broad. oblong or oval-oblong, roundud at both ends, obscurely apiculate,very shallowly serrate -crenate in the upper part, glabrous but not shining on bothsides, pale dull green, veins arcuat pe petioles very short, 6mm long with I or 2prominent glands at the top immediately oeueath the leaf; flowers regular.polygamous, sessile, greenish-white strongly honey scented, in rather lax spikeswhich are short, axillary or in small terminal panicles; bmacicoics l -tanceolate,shorter than the flowers, caducous; sepals 5, fused into a tube adnate to the ovary. inearly glabrous on both ssdes; petals absent; disc with a few long white hairs; sta tO,distinct, five often longer, inserted on the calyx-tube outside the annular epigynoushatry disc, ovary inferior, unilocular with 2 or 3 pendulous ov&es; fruit an indehiscentdru 3 5-Scm long, obovate-ovoid, somewhat narrowed at base, bluntly pointed,glabrous, fibrous-woody, with 5, stiff, hard, projecting wings becoming widerupwards and striated with nu much - curved veins, dark b-own; seed solitary. Flowersduriiig April and May. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Cardiac, tonic, astringent, febrifuge, dysentery, asthma, hypertension, wounds, skineruptions, menstrual, leucoderma, swellings (Bangladesh)
Biliousness, sores, dysentery, blood pressure, fractures, heart diseases, lucorrhoea, earache, antidote (India)
Lung ailments, fever, leucoderma, fractures, contusions, ulcers, biliousness (SriLanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Naula, Bibila, Kanneliya, Ritigala, Meegahak, Pinna, Haldummu, Pallekale, Pattipola, Giradurukotte, Ganewatta
Remarks
Terminalia arjuna (GRIN)

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