Plant Profile
Herb descriptions
Botany
Binomial nomenclature
Phoenix pusilla
Scientific Name and Description
Phoenix pusilla Gaertn
Phoenix pusilla Roxb.
Phoenix pusilla Roxb.
Herb Family
Plant type
Shrub
Plant Names - Common - Regional - Vernacular
Hindi | palavat, palawat,Konda khajur |
Kannada | eechakeya, eechalu, henthaale, hulleechala, hullichala, ichai, ichalu, indu, kiri eechalu, sannayichalu |
Malayalam | chittintal, cittintal, inta |
Sanskrit | parusakah |
Tamil | cittintu, icham, ichu, inchu, indu, inju, ithi, kalangu, kurinji, sagi, siruintu, siruyinju, sittinju,Punnai |
Telugu | chiruta-ita, chitti-ita, chittiyita, churuta ita, cinna eachala, eechakoyya |
Common Names | Ceylon Date Palm, Dwarf Date Palm, flour palm |
Marathi | Eechu peng |
Plants Medicinal Value
Medicinal Systems
Ayurved
Folk
Herb usable parts
Roots
Fruits
Ethnopharmacology use
Phoenix pusilla Gaertn
Habit- Shrub
Parts used - Fruit
Application - Edible
Treatment - General
References - Rekka and Kumar 2014
References
Literature
Literature
Rekka and Kumar 2014
The Flora of the Gulf of Mannar Author - P. Daniel & P. Umamaheswari
Published 11 February 2019 http://dx.doi.org/10.32859/era.18.4.1-112
The National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), Department of AYUSH
Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT)
Citations
Herb citations
Phoenix pusilla. (2021, April 18). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoenix_pusilla