Buchnera cruciata (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Buchnera cruciata Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don

Protologue: Prodr. fl. nepal.: 91 (1825).

Buchnera ramosa Bonati (1911).

• Laos: hnha:z do:k lê (Xieng Khouang), khauz kamx no:yz (Louang Prabang)
• Thailand: ya khao kam khao (north-eastern), ya khao kam (south-eastern)
• Vietnam: mây mây (Phu Khanh), bục.

Nepal, eastern India, Burma (Myanmar), Indo-China, southern China and Thailand.

In Thailand, the whole plant is used to treat asthma and ulcers. Mixed with the whole plant of Pierranthus capitatus (Bonati) Bonati it is used to treat anaemia. In Vietnam, an infusion of the plant is used to treat cough. In China, the whole plant is used to treat epilepsy.

A herb up to 80 cm tall, stem simple; lowest leaves obovate, elliptical or oblong, 1-5 cm long, middle and upper leaves linear-lanceolate, 1-4 cm long, scabrous-pubescent; inflorescence densely flowered, bracts 2-3 mm long, pubescent; calyx c. 4 mm long, corolla with c. 8 mm long tube and c. 2 mm long lobes, purplish; fruit oblong-ovoid or oblong, 4-5 mm long. B. cruciata occurs in open deciduous forest and in grassland, up to 1600 m altitude.

169, 249, 250.

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