 Banaba (Bis.)
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Lagerstroemia speciosa |
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- Authors:
- Mansueto, Josel B, Sia,Isidro C, de la Pena, Mario
- Title:
- Documentation of Philippine Traditional Knowledge and Practices on Health and Development of Traditional Knowledge Digital Library on Health - FOLK HEALING PRACTICES of SIQUIJOR ISLAND
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- Family:
- Lythraceae
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- Geographic area:
- Siquijor Province, Siquijor, Barangay Cantabon
- Habitat:
- Lowland area
- Latitude /longitude:
- Altitude:
- 472 m
- Habit:
- A deciduous tropical flowering tree
- Height:
- 10 to 20 meters high
- Roots:
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- Leaves:
- Smooth, large, spatulate, oblong to elliptic-ovate, 4 to 8 centimeters in width, 12 to 25 centimeters in length, shedding its leaves the first months of the year.
- Inflouresence & flowers:
- 6-parted, purplish lilac or mauve-pink, rarely pink, 5 to 7.5 centimeters across, and borne in large, terminal panicles up to 40 centimeters in length
- Fruits:
- A large nutlike capsule, obovoid or ellipsoid, and 2 to 3.5 centimeters long.
- Seeds:
- Pale brown, with a wing 12 to 18 millimeters long.
- Additional info:
- Collected by:
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- Abstracted by:
- Ando, JKA
- Date abstracted:
- 29/03/2015
- Province:
- Siquijor