Gataran
Description :
A large, woody climber, up to 15 m in height. Bark black, branchlets glossy, black, more or less armed with recurved prickles; leaves large, bipinnate, armed with recurved prickles at the base of pinnae; pinnae 2-5 pairs, often armed; leaflets 2-3 pairs, coriaceous, acute or obtuse, ovate or elliptic, upper surface shining, lower dull; flowers fragrant, yellow, in axillary and terminal racemes combined into a 20-40 cm long panicle, bracts caducous; pods greenish brown or dark brown to black, 5 cm long, usually one-seeded; seeds black, orbicular to ovoid or reniform, flat, beaked.
Detail :
Botanical Name : Caesalpinia Crista
English Name : Bonducella Nut, Fever Nut, Molucca Bean
Hindi Name : Kantkarej, Kantikaranja, Sagar Gota.
Common Name : Bonducella nut, Fever nut, Molucca bean,Gray nicker, nicker seed, bonduc nut, nicker nut, nicker bean, yellow nicker, benga nut,Kañtaki Karánja, Kuberãksa, Püti Karanja, Vitapa Karañja, Karañji, Danatha nayanam
Tamil Name: Kalichikai,Kajichikaya
Sanskrit Name: Putrakaranj
Persian Name: Khayahe-i-iblas
Bengali Name: Natakani
Malayalam Name : Kajanachikkuru, kazhanji
Kannada Name: Gajaga kaya
Marathi Name : Sagargota.
Family Name : Caesalpiniaceae
Part Used : Fruit
Medicinal Uses :
- Piles leaf decoction to bathe infants.
- Leaves and seeds used as external applications for dispersing inflammatory swelling.
- Bark and leaves used as anthelmintic, febrifuge and emmenagogue.