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Terminalia chebula

Scientific Name
Terminalia chebula
Family Name
Combretaceae
Common Names
Black myrobalam, chebulic myrobalam, inknut, gallnut.
Local Names
Haritaki. (Bangladesh), Harde (India), Harro (Nepal), Aralu, bulu (SriLanka)
Description
A large deciduous tree with thick, dark brown bark. Leaves sub-opposite, ovate orelliptic, acuminate. Flowers dull white or yellow, small, strong-scented in terminal,paniculate spikes. Drupes more or l4ess ellipsoid or ovoid, with a rough, groovedsurface and a hard nut. (India)
Deciduous tree, up to 25m high, with ovate-oblong or elliptic leaves and flowers inpanicles spikes. (Nepal)
A moderate-sized tree with a very thick, grey-brown bark, crooked trunk and manyspreading branches drooping at the extremities and pubescent young parts; leavessimple, alternate without stipules, 7.5-12.5cm long, broadly oblong-oval, rounded orcordate at base, very obtuse at apex, pubescent on both sides especially when young,thick and rigid; petioles 1-2cm long, pubescent with 2 prominent glands at the top justbeneath the leaf; flowers small, regular, bisexual, greenish-white, nearly sessile,numerous in terminal spikes or from the axils of the uppermost leaves; bracts linear,hairy, conspicuous in bud; calyx-tube adnate to ovary. limbs 5, free, campanulate,glabrous outside with long hairs within; petals absent; stamens 10, the longer onesinserted on the calyx-tube outside an annular, epigynous, hairy disc; ovary inferior,unilocular with 2 pendulous ovules; fruit a pendulous drupe, 2-4cm long, broadlyovoid, glabrous, not angled, yellowish green; stone oblong, bony, very thick,obscurely angled; seed solitary, in a very small cavity without endosperm. Flowersduring April. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Laxative, astringent, dysentery, pains, menstrual disorders, indigestion, constipation,piles, tonic, cough, fever, asthma, urinary diseases (Bangladesh)
Cough, diarrhoea, dysentery, bloody stools, seminal emissions, metrorrhagia (China)
Aphthae, acsites, asthma, bile trouble, bleeding, ulcerations, blood pressure, burns,scalds, carious teeth, cough, dysentery, diarrhoea, piles, vaginal discharge (India)
Diarrhoea, dysentery, bronchial (Nepal)
Aphthae, sore eyes, rheumatism, diarrhoea, diuretic, bleeding gums, ulcers, cudio-tonics, cudio-tonics, carious teeth, ulcerated lungs, eye disease, piles, complexion (SriLanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Nepal - Dhakeri, Banke
Remarks
Terminalia chebula (GRIN)

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