Cissus ADNATA Roxb.
| Synonym : | Cissus vitiginea sensu Roxb. Vitis pellida Weight & Arn. Cissus latifolia Vahl Cissus simplex Blanco Vitis adnata (Roxb.) Wall. Vitis simplex (Blanco) Burkill |
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| Bangla Name : | Bhatia-lot, Alianga-lata. ,Romo-way, La Oye Raa, Oo La Pa (Marma), Murmuijja amila (Chakma). |
| English Name : | - |
| Family : | Vitaceae |
| Disease : | , blood purifier, diuretic, used, diuretic, blood purifier, boils, buboes, jaundice, sores, wounds, syphilis, ulcers and dysentery. |
| Description : | A slender woody climber, stems and inflorescence clothed with orange-red pubescence, tendrils forked. Leaves 7.5-12.5 cm long, broadly ovate, abruptly and shortly acuminate, bristle-serrate, densly clothed with orange-red pubescence beneath. Flowers small, greenish yellow, in much-branched peduncled compound umbellate cymes. Berry 6 mm diam., obovoid or subglobose, black when ripe. |
| Distribution : | Common in the primary forests of Sylhet, Chittgong, Bandarban, Cox’s Bazar, Khagrachari, Dhaka |
| Chemical Constituents : | - |
| Uses : | The dried tubers are considered as alterative, blood purifier and diuretic, used for cuts and fractures. Decoction of the dried root-stock is used as a diuretic and blood purifier. Leaf poultice is used to treat boils and buboes. Stems are used for jaundi |
| Habit : | Climber |