Knema attenuata (HoOK. f. & Thoms.) Warb.

Knema attenuata (HoOK. f. & Thoms.) Warb.

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Systematic Classification:

Division	: Angiospermae
Class		: Dicotyledons
Family		: Myristicaceae
Genus		: Knema
Species 	: attenuata

Common Name:

Chorapali, Chorapain

General Information:

Trees grow up to 20 m tall.Bark brownish, usually smooth, irregulary flaky; blaze reddish.Branches verticillate and horizontal; young branchlets terete, rusty tomentose.Sap red from cut end of bark, profuse.Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 0.6-1.3 cm, stout, canaliculate, fulvous stellate tomentose when young and glabrous when mature; lamina 12-23 x 3.5-8 cm, narrow oblong to oblong or narrow-elliptic to lanceolate, apex gradually acute to acuminate, base rounded or acute, margin entire, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, shining above, glaucous beneath, fulvous stellate tomentose when young; midrib raised above; secondary nerves prominent, 13-21 pairs, gradually curved, prominently raised beneath and slightly raised above; tertiary nerves closely obliquely percurrent. Flowers unisexual, dioecious; male flowers on short axillary peduncle, fulvous stellate tomentose; female flowers 1-3, pedicel up to 0.8 cm long.Fruit and SeedCapsule, elliptic, to 4 cm long, 2-valved, apiculate, fulvous tomentose; seed one with crimson red lacinated aril.

Economic Importance:

  • The stem bark of K. attenuata is used for treating inflammatory.
  • The present study was undertaken to evaluate the anti-inflammatory. activity of the ethanolic stem bark extract (ESBE) of K. attenuata using in vivo and in vitro screening models.