Putranjiva roxburghii Wall.

DeFilipps, Robert A. & Krupnick, Gary A., 2018, The medicinal plants of Myanmar, PhytoKeys 102, pp. 1-341 : 145

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.102.24380

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scientific name

Putranjiva roxburghii Wall.
status

 

Putranjiva roxburghii Wall.

Names.

Myanmar: badi-byu, daukyat, mai-mot, mai-motawn, taukyat, ye-padi. English: officinal drypetes, putranjiv tree.

Range.

India. In Myanmar, found in Mandalay, Mon, and Yangon.

Use.

Leaf: Used to treat diabetes.

Note.

In India the leaf and fruit (including the stones) are used as a decoction for fevers and colds ( Jain and DeFilipps 1991).

References.

Nordal (1963), Forest Department (1999).