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Myanmar Name – Muya-gyi

Common Name – Malabar Nut, adulsa

Botanical Name – Justicia adhatoda L.

Family Name – Acanthaceae

Habitat – The plant’s native to Asia. Plants native range is the Indian subcontinent.(Assam, Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Sri Lanka, Laos and Myanmar.) From there it has been introduced in other parts of the world.

Habit – an erect, evergreen, shrub with few branches to many branches. It usually grows up to 2.5 metres tall with taproot system.

Bark – yellow coloured bark

Leaves – Ramal and cauline, simple exstipulate, petiolate, lanceolate to ovate, entire, acute unicostate reticulate venation, pale green

Inflorescence – Axilliary racemose spike.

Flower – Flower are Bracteate complete, hermaphrodite, zygomorphic, pentamerous, hypogynous, large, white Calyx made up of 5 sepals, polysepalous. Corolla made up of 5 petals, gamopetalous.

Fruit – Fruits are pubescent, and are with club-shaped Capsules, clavate, longitudinally channeled, 1.9-2.2 cm long and 0.8 cm wide.

Seed – Seeds 1 or 2, 5-6mm, sub orbicular, compressed glabrous, non- endospermic and provided with hooks (Jaculators). There are four seeds in fruit.
Flowering and

Flowering and Fruiting Time – December – June.

Usage – Medicinal plant used for a cough, asthma, breathing trouble, nasal congestion, bleeding disorders allergic conditions, upper respairatory infections, excessive uterine bleeding, epistaxis (nosebleed). The main used parts of the plant is its leg.