CHAPTER 2 LITERATURE REVIEW 2.1 Phyllathus emblica L.
2.1.1 Taxa and Classification of Phyllanthus emblica L. (4 27)
Kingdom,, : Plantae (Plants)
Subkingdom: Tracheobionta (Vascular plants)
Superdivision: Spermatophyta (Seed plants)
Division. : Magnoliophyta (Flowering plants)
Class: Magnoliopsida (Dicotyledons)
Subclass: Rosidae
Order: Euphobiales
Family:Euphobiaceae (Spurge family)
Genus: Phyllanthus L. (leaf flower)
Species: Phyllanthus emblica L. (emblic)
Plant Synonyms. : Emblica officinalis Gaertn.
Common names:,, Emblica Amala Indian gooseberry
Phyllanthus emblica Linn, formerly Phyllanthus. Emblica L, is known in Thai name as Ma-Kham-Pom (4 5), and commonly called Emblica Amala or, Indian gooseberry.It has a habitat in tropical and subtropical forest in South East Asia and South Asia.Description of the plant: 5 6 (,). P. Emblica is a small or medium-sized tree up to, 20, m high deciduous with crooked, trunk and spreading branches; bark. Greenish gray peeling off, in conchoidal flakes; branchlets glabrous or finely pubescent 10 to 20 cm long.
Leaves imbricate. When young subsessile 0.5,, to 2.5 cm by 1.5 to, 5.5 mm closely set along the branchlets distichous light green glabrous,,,,,,, narrowly-linear obtuse having Appearance of pinnate leaves; stipules minute ovate finely,, acute. P. Emblica is flowering in May to July male and, female. Flowers borne in the same tree. The flowers are small monoecious apetalous,,,, greenish yellow in axillary fascicles on. The, leaf-bearing branchletsOften on the naked portion below, the leaves with fimbricate bracts at the base. Male flowers, are numerous on short slender. Pedicel; calyx-lobes 6 oblong obtuse 1.2,,, mm long; anthers 3; filaments united in a short central column; diskglands 6 alternating. With the calyx-segments. Female flowers, are few subsessile or sessile; calyx as in the male; ovary 3-celled half immersed,, In, the lacerateCup-shaped disk; style connate at the base; stigmata 3 bibbed lobes dilated,,,, recurved. Fruits are sessile 1.3 to 2.7 cm. In, diameter fleshy globose or, depress globose with 6, longitudinal faint lines glabrous lucid pale,,, yellow; endocarp. Of triangular cocci bony dehiscent with 3,,, short bundles of vascular tissue at the base. It has 6 seeds with, trigonous. The scatted picture, of femaleMale flower and fruiting twig of P. Emblica is shown in
P. Emblica is a rich source of vitamin C and phenolic compounds. (18) It is used, in anaemia jaundice and dyspepsia. It, is a good liver tonic and also used as expectorant antidiuretic,,, ,, antidiarrheal antipyretic and antiscury (5).
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