Salacia reticulata
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Salacia reticulata | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Celastrales |
Family: | Celastraceae |
Genus: | Salacia |
Species: | S. reticulata
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Binomial name | |
Salacia reticulata Wight[1]
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Salacia reticulata is a flowering plant of the genus Salacia native to Sri Lanka and the Andaman Islands.[1] It grows in dry zone forests in Sri Lanka. In ayurvedic medicine, it is known as kothala himbutu (කොතල හිඹුටු) in Sinhala.
Description[]
Salacia reticulata is a climbing, perennial, woody shrub. The plant has dichotomous branching pattern. The bark is smooth, greenish grey in colour, thin, and white internally. The leaves are opposite and elliptic-oblong. The leaves have acute bases, abruptly acuminate apexes, and a margin with minute rounded teeth. The flowers are bisexual and arranged in clusters of 2-8 in the leaf axils. They are greenish-white to greenish-yellow in color. The fruit is a drupe which is globose and tubercular. The drupe assumes a pinkish-orange color on ripening. There are 1–4 seeds, each resembling an almond.
References[]
- ^ a b "Salacia reticulata Wight", Plants of the World Online, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, retrieved 2022-02-13
- Salacia (plant)
- Flora of Sri Lanka
- Flora of the Andaman Islands
- Plants used in Ayurveda
- Celastraceae stubs
- Sri Lanka stubs
- Medicinal plant stubs