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Commiphora caudata (Wight & Arn.) Engl

 

Family: Burseraceae

Medium sized deciduous tree; bark smooth, green, peels off in thin sheets; resinous gum is secreted by the old stems; leaves 1-pinnate, leaflets 5-7, ovate-lanceolate to oblong, glabrous, entire, apex cuspidate; flowers small, reddish yellow, in lax cymes, arise on the apex of branches; flowers subdioecious; pentamerous, disk small, red; stamens 10, included, ovary 3 celled; fruit a drupe; seeds black, heart shaped, pulp red.

In Indian folk medicine used as an antiulcerogenic agent.

It is a potential medicinal plant used for its antispasmodic activity, cytotoxic activity and hypothermic activity, in Ayurveda.

Ver.name: Hill mango

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Uploaded on June 9, 2013
Taken on May 21, 2013