Plant Profile
Herb descriptions
Botany
Binomial nomenclature
Psydrax dicoccos
Scientific Name and Description
Psydrax dicoccos Gaertn.
Herb Family
Plant type
Tree
Plant Synonyms
Plant Synonyms
Canthium dicoccum (Gaertn.) Merr.
Plant Names - Common - Regional - Vernacular
| common names | Ceylon box wood, malakafe |
Plants Medicinal Value
Herb usable parts
Bark
Wood
Leaves
Fruits
Ethnopharmacology use
Psydrax dicoccos Gaertn. Tree Wood, leaves, fruit, bark Bone fractures; dandruff; burns; edible; fever; firewood; diarrhoea General Ram et al. 2004, Ratnam and
References
Literature
Literature
Ram et al. 2004
Ratnam and Raju 2008
Published 11 February 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.32859/era.18.4.1-112
Citations
Herb citations
Psydrax dicoccos. (2022, October 18). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psydrax_dicoccos