Botanical Name :
Cyathea spinulosa Wall.ex Hook
Synonyms :
Alsophila fauriei H. Christ
Alsophila spinulosa (Wall.ex Hook.) R.M.
Tryon
Cyathea taiwanian Nakai
Alsophila decipiens Jcott ex Bedd.
Amphicosmia decipiens (J. Scott ex Bedd.)
Bedd.
Family : Cyatheaceae
Habitat: In deep shade usually in moist place in the lower mountainous forest. Distribution India, Thailand, Nepal, Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar, China, Taiwan. Odisha (Bonai, Keonjhar, South Kalahandi, Gunpur, Sambalpur, Mahendragiri, Malayagiri)
Fertile time: December - March
Conservation Status: Threatened
Description:
Habit : The tree have a single stemmed palm like habit and it reach height of 5-6 meters.
Trunk : Trunk 5-15 m, 10-20 cm in diameter, densely covered by adventitious roots. Stipes dark purplish distinctly. Spiny near base; scale shining dark brown, stiff, their bases laser develop in to spines.
Laminae : Laminae about 3m long, 1.5 m wide, ca. 23 pairs of pinnae, a few basal pinnae reduced. Pinna-rachis bearing scales, pinnules broadly cuneate at sub-sessile base, acuminate at apex, about 8 cm long.
Sori : Sori at forks of lateral veinlets, indusial globose, thin membranous, completely enveloping sori from base when young, irregularly falling off at maturity.
Uses : The whole part of the plant is used for graying of hair and also used as general hair tonic. Powder of fronds are used as a sudorific and aphrodisiac. Whole plant used as ornamental.
Trunk : It is used for orchid cultivation. Pith from the trunks is used as a food production and also stem as food & used in making pots. Trunk fibers used for orchid tissue culture media. The stem can be used in traditional Chinese medicine for eliminating dampness and strengthening muscles and joints.
Root : Root are used for the preparation of local drink.
Source:
B. P. Singh & R. Upadhyay. Ethno-botanical importance of Pteridophytes used by the tribe of Pachmarhi, Central India . J. Med. Plants Res., Jan. 2012,Vol.6(1).PP.14-18.
Kumari et al. Some ethno-medicinally important pterydophytes of India. Int. J. Arom. Plants. Vol.1(1),June 2011. PP. 18-22.
M. Hegde et.al. (2013). Indian plants in the CITES Appendices – A Check list.
Saxena, H.O. & Brahmam, M. (1994). The Flora of Orissa, Vol. IV, pp: 2597-2598.
www.iucnredlist.org
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Family : Cyatheaceae
Habitat: In deep shade usually in moist place in the lower mountainous forest. Distribution India, Thailand, Nepal, Indonesia, Japan, Myanmar, China, Taiwan. Odisha (Bonai, Keonjhar, South Kalahandi, Gunpur, Sambalpur, Mahendragiri, Malayagiri)
Fertile time: December - March
Conservation Status: Threatened
Description:
Habit : The tree have a single stemmed palm like habit and it reach height of 5-6 meters.
Trunk : Trunk 5-15 m, 10-20 cm in diameter, densely covered by adventitious roots. Stipes dark purplish distinctly. Spiny near base; scale shining dark brown, stiff, their bases laser develop in to spines.
Laminae : Laminae about 3m long, 1.5 m wide, ca. 23 pairs of pinnae, a few basal pinnae reduced. Pinna-rachis bearing scales, pinnules broadly cuneate at sub-sessile base, acuminate at apex, about 8 cm long.
Sori : Sori at forks of lateral veinlets, indusial globose, thin membranous, completely enveloping sori from base when young, irregularly falling off at maturity.
Uses : The whole part of the plant is used for graying of hair and also used as general hair tonic. Powder of fronds are used as a sudorific and aphrodisiac. Whole plant used as ornamental.
Trunk : It is used for orchid cultivation. Pith from the trunks is used as a food production and also stem as food & used in making pots. Trunk fibers used for orchid tissue culture media. The stem can be used in traditional Chinese medicine for eliminating dampness and strengthening muscles and joints.
Root : Root are used for the preparation of local drink.
Source:
B. P. Singh & R. Upadhyay. Ethno-botanical importance of Pteridophytes used by the tribe of Pachmarhi, Central India . J. Med. Plants Res., Jan. 2012,Vol.6(1).PP.14-18.
Kumari et al. Some ethno-medicinally important pterydophytes of India. Int. J. Arom. Plants. Vol.1(1),June 2011. PP. 18-22.
M. Hegde et.al. (2013). Indian plants in the CITES Appendices – A Check list.
Saxena, H.O. & Brahmam, M. (1994). The Flora of Orissa, Vol. IV, pp: 2597-2598.
www.iucnredlist.org
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