Gidnokárpus ( Latin Hydnocárpus ) is a genus of plants of the Ahariyev family , growing in tropical Asia ( Indochina , Malaysia , Indonesia , Philippines ), tropical Africa and tropical America.
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Biological description
Evergreen dioecious trees with alternate, leathery, oval, pointed to the top leaves , 18-25 cm long.
The flowers are orange-yellow, gathered in the half-umbrellas in the axils of the leaves. There are many stamens in male flowers; in women, the ovary is upper, single-knotted.
Fruits are spherical, orange, 6-8 cm in diameter, with a thick soft skin. The pulp contains 8-12 seeds.
Use
The oil obtained from the seeds of some types of hydropathic is used in Eastern medicine as a specific agent against acid-resistant bacteria, including the causative agents of leprosy ( Mycobacterium leprae ), in psoriasis , elephant disease , and skin diseases. The oil strongly irritates the mucous membranes , so they use a mixture of sodium salts of the acids of the oil, called amprol, and ethyl esters of the same acids, called mugrol and halmestrol [3] .
Seeds and oil retard the growth of mycobacterium tuberculosis [3] .
Types
The Plant List has 72 names associated with this genus, of which 6 species names are recognized, 6 are indicated as synonyms, and 60 names are indicated as unallocated
- Hydnocarpus annamensis ( Gagnep. ) Lescot & Sleumer
- Hydnocarpus anthelminticus Pierre ex Laness. - Gidnokarpus anthelmintic
- Hydnocarpus hainanensis ( Merr. ) Sleumer
- Hydnocarpus kurzii ( King ) Warb. - Gidnokarpus Kurtz , or Chaalmugra
- Hydnocarpus pentandrus ( Buch.-Ham. ) Oken
- Hydnocarpus wightiana blume
Notes
- ↑ About the conditionality of specifying the class of dicotyledons as a higher taxon for the group of plants described in this article, see the section “APG Systems” of the article “Dicotyledons” .
- ↑ Gidnokarpus (English) : information on the GRIN website.
- ↑ 1 2 Blinov KF and others. Botanico-pharmacognostic dictionary: Ref. manual / Under (inaccessible link) ed. K. F. Blinova, G. P. Yakovlev. - M .: Higher. shk., 1990. - p. 255-256. - ISBN 5-06-000085-0 .
Links
- Multilingual multiscript plant name database
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