Bauhinia tomentosa, Manjamandaram, Yellow Orchid Tree, മഞ്ഞമന്ദാരം

Family: Fabaceae
Vernacular names: Manjamandaram, മഞ്ഞമന്ദാരം (Malayalam), Yellow Orchid Tree (English), Pili Kachnar (Hindi), Kanjani (Tamil)
Distribution: Native of South East Asia
Description: A shrub or a small tree. Leaves petiolate, stipule c. 3-5 mm long, lamina 2.5-5 cm long, bilobed, lobes rounded at apex, 7-9 nerved at the base, glabrous above, hairy below. Flowers axillary in pairs, sometimes 1-3, each on a pedicel bearing a pair of subulate persistent bracteoles. Calyx c. 1.3-1.4 cm long, with 2 teeth at the apex in bud, splitting down on one side when the flower opens. Petals 5, c. 1.8-5 cm long, obovate, not clawed, yellow, conspicuously veined, one with a red blotch on the inner surface. Stamens 10. Ovary stipitate; style c. 1.8-1.9 cm long. Pods dehiscent, 6-10 seeded; stipe 10-12.5 cm long, tomentose, or glabrous.
Habit: Shrub
Habitat: Planted as ornamental plant
Flowering & Fruiting: September-May

Parts used: Root and Bark
Properties & Uses: Used to treat some diseases including liver inflammation, abscess, tumors, wounds, and hyperlipidemia in ethnomedicines in Asia and Africa.
Systems of Medicines: Folk,
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