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Bauhinia acuminata L.

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Family : CAESALPINIOIDEAE

Synonym : Bauhinia linnaei Ali.

Common Names : Veluthamantharam, White bauhinia, Snowy orchid

Flowering Period : Throughout the year

Distribution : Indo-Malaysia

Habitat : Grown as ornamental plant

Uses : Ornamental. The roots are used to treat cough and cold. In India, the decoction of leaves and bark is used to treat asthma attack.

Key Characters :

Bauhinia acuminata is a shrub with young stems puberulent. Leaves are subcoriaceous, ovate to subrotund, bilobed, lobes acute to acuminate. Inflorescences lateral, few-flowered, racemose or cymose. Calyx spathaceous. Petals are white, elliptic and obtuse. Stamens 10, perfect, the filaments connate at the base, otherwise free, anthers with puberulent connective. Ovary stipitate, style glabrous; stigma peltate. Fruit linear-oblong; seeds are compressed and brown.