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Mallotus philippensis (Lam.) Mull. -Arg.
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- Local Name:
- Kamila.
- Synonym:
- Habit & Habitat:
- A small tree up to 6m tall, found in sub-tropical zone.
- Plant Description:
- Leaves simple, ovate to ovate-lanceolate. Tip acute-sub acuminate, rounded at base, upper surface dark green. Male inflorescence terminal, spicate or racemose, clustered, appear before leaves. Male flower brown-yellow, subsessile with ovate-lanceolate calyx lobes. Female flowers sessile with triangular-ovate calyx lobes. Fruit 3-lobed, subglobose, brick red, with powdery covering. Seed subglobose, smooth, black.
- Flowering and Fruiting:
- October-February.
- Harvesting Time:
- November-March.
- Medicinal Value:
- Locally powder of its fruit is used as quick wound healer, also as purgative and vermifuge.
- Part Used:
- Red powder on fruit.
- Occurrence:
- Common.
- Future Perspective:
- Cultivation, Herbal Pharmacy.
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