Schima wallichii Choisy

DeFilipps, Robert A. & Krupnick, Gary A., 2018, The medicinal plants of Myanmar, PhytoKeys 102, pp. 1-341 : 162

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https://dx.doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.102.24380

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scientific name

Schima wallichii Choisy
status

 

Schima wallichii Choisy

Names.

Myanmar: laukya, laukya-byu, mai-song, masa, meiksong, pan-ma, thitya-byu, thityah, thitya-ni. English: Chinese guger tree, needle wood, schima.

Range.

India, east to Indonesia and Taiwan. In Myanmar, found in Bago, Chin, Kachin, Kayin, Mandalay, Rakhine, Sagaing, Shan, and Taninthayi.

Use.

Bark: Anthelmintic.

Note.

In India the bark is an anthelmintic and rubefacient, irritating to the skin ( Jain and DeFilipps 1991).

Reference.

Nordal (1963).

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Ericales

Family

Theaceae

Genus

Schima