Morphological information

Stems as thick as the little finger; branches wrinkled when dry. Leaves dark green, 12.5-25 by 6.3-15 cm ovate, elliptic ovate, or nearly orbiucular, cordate-acuminate, base rounded or slightly cordate, primary nerve distinct petiole 7.5-15 cm broadly winged up to the knee .Peduncle solitary, terminal are much shorter than the petioles; spathe about 10-15 cm long, oblong, sub cylindrical, slender beaked, green Without, yellow within; spadix equaling the spathe, elongating in fruit, greenish yellow. Stigma elongate; fruiting hemispheric. Berries, few only ripening fleshy. Seeds ovate-cordate. Fruiting spadix sometimes a span long.

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Parts                      : Fruit.

Status                    : Vulnerable

Medicinal

The dried, sliced fruit of gajapipal is useful in indigenous medicine principally as an aromatic adjunct to other medicines. It is credited with stimulant, diaphoretic, aphrodisiac, carminative and anthelmintic properties and is used to stop diarrhoea. A decoction of the fruit is used as an expectorant in asthma.

 

Traditional             : The fruit pulp is applied externally for the treatment of rheumatism.

 

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