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''Butea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the pea family, . It is sometimes considered to have only two species, '' B. monosperma'' and '' B. superba'',Gwilym Lewis, Brian Schrire, Barbara MacKinder, and Mike Lock. 2005. ''Legumes of the World''. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Richmond, England. or is expanded to include four or five species.
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''Butea'' is a genus of flowering plants belonging to the pea family, . It is sometimes considered to have only two species, '' B. monosperma'' and '' B. superba'',Gwilym Lewis, Brian Schrire, Barbara MacKinder, and Mike Lock. 2005. ''Legumes of the World''. Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: Richmond, England. or is expanded to include four or five species.
''Butea monosperma
''Butea monosperma'' is a species of '' Butea'' native to tropical and sub-tropical parts of the South Asia and Southeast Asia, ranging across
Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Nepal, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysi ...
'' is used for timber, resin, fodder, herbal medicine, and dyeing.
''Butea'' is also a host to the lac insect, which produces natural lacquer
Lacquer is a type of hard and usually shiny coating or finish applied to materials such as wood or metal. It is most often made from resin extracted from trees and waxes and has been in use since antiquity.
Asian lacquerware, which may be ca ...
.Munivenkatappa Sanjappa. 1987. "Revision of the genera ''Butea'' Roxb. ex Willd. and ''Meizotropis'' Voigt (Fabaceae)". ''Bulletin of the Botanical Survey of India'' 29:199-225.
Taxonomy
''Butea'' is named after John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792), member of parliament, prime minister for one year, and a patron of botany.Umberto Quattrocchi. 2000. ''CRC World Dictionary of Plant Names'' volume I. CRC Press: Boca Raton; New York; Washington, DC; USA. London, UK. William Roxburgh erected the genus ''Butea'' in 1795, but it became a nomen invalidum. Carl Willdenow validated thename
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''Butea'' in 1802.
Uses
''Butea monosperma'', called kiṃśukha in Sanskrit, is used inAyurvedic
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medicine to treat various symptoms.
Species
Forty-two names have been published in ''Butea'',''Butea''At
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synonyms
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or names
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of species that have been transferred to other genera.
* '' B. braamiana''
* '' B. buteiformis'' (''Megalotropis buteiformis'', ''Meizotropis buteiformis'')
* '' B. monosperma'' (syn. ''Butea frondosa'', ''Erythrina monosperma''): flame-of-the-forest, bastard teak, pâlāsh
* '' B. superba'' (''Plaso superba'', ''Rudolphia superba'')
References
External links
* *''Erythrina monosperma''
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