Meyna spinosa
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Meyna spinosa is a species of plant in the red family from India to Southeast Asia .
description
Meyna spinosa grows as a deciduous, thorny shrub or small tree up to about 5 meters or a little more high. The dark brown bark is almost smooth.
The simple, ovate to obovate and stalked leaves are arranged opposite or whorled in threes. The petiole is up to 2.5 inches long. The entire-edged and slightly leathery, runic-pointed to pointed, bare leaves are up to 10–11 centimeters long and 5–6.5 centimeters wide. The sharp thorns are 2-3 inches long. There are small stipules present.
The stalked, whitish-green, usually five-fold flowers with a double flower envelope appear tufted and axillary. The very small, cup-shaped flower cup is bare, with very small, narrow, triangular calyx tips. The corolla is short, broad-tubular fused, with spreading to recessed lobes that are about as long as the corolla tube. The very short stamens sit on top of the hairy throat of the corolla tube. The ovary is (semi) under constantly with a slightly protruding pen with lobed, broad scar .
Roundish, yellow when ripe, about 2–2.5 centimeters large, multi-seeded, smooth berries or drupes with calyx remains at the tip are formed. The 4–5 woody seeds or stone cores (Pyrene) are slightly wedge-shaped.
Taxonomy
The first description of Meyna spinosa was carried out in 1820 by Heinrich Friedrich Link by William Roxburgh in Jahrb. Gewächsk. 1 (3): 32. A well-known synonym is Vangueria spinosa Roxb.
use
The fleshy fruits are used raw or cooked. The leaves are used medicinally.
literature
- Theodore Cooke: The Flora of the Presidency of Bombay. Vol. 1, 1903, pp. 607 f, online at biodiversitylibrary.org.
- William Roxburgh: Flora indica. Vol. II, 1824, p. 172 f, online at biodiversitylibrary.org.
Web links
- Meyna spinosa at Useful Tropical Plants.