Scientific name: Swietenia mahagoni (L.) Jacq.
Family: Meliaceae
Synonym: Cedrela mahagoni L.
Bengali/Vernacular name: Mahogani.
Tribal name: Athag-apang-kish-mish (Rakhaing).
English name: Small-leaved mahogany, West Indian mahogoni.
Description of the plant: A small to medium sized evergreen tree, up to 22 m tall, with an umbrella-shpaed crown. Leaves alternate, leaflets 2-4 pairs, opposite, obliquely oblong-lanceolate, acuminate at the apex, cuneate at the base, entire, glabrous to sparsely pubescent. Flowers small, colour greenish-white. Fruit a capsule, subglobose to ovoid, up to 14 cm long, brown, woody, valves 5, many seeded.
Plant parts used: Leaf.
Medicinal uses: Decoction of the leaves is taken for the treatment of gastric ulcer.
Distribution: It is planted throughout the country.
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