| Butea | |
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| Butea monosperma flowers in India | |
Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| Clade: | Tracheophytes |
| Clade: | Angiosperms |
| Clade: | Eudicots |
| Clade: | Rosids |
| Order: | Fabales |
| Family: | Fabaceae |
| Subfamily: | Faboideae |
| Tribe: | Phaseoleae |
| Genus: | Butea Roxb.exWilld. (1802), nom. cons. |
| Type species | |
| Butea monosperma | |
| Species[1] | |
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| Synonyms[1] | |
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Butea is agenus offlowering plants belonging to the pea family,Fabaceae. It includes five species native to the Indian Subcontinent, Indochina, Tibet, and southern China.[1] It is sometimes considered to have only twospecies,B. monosperma andB. superba,[2] or is expanded to include four or five.[3]
Butea monosperma is used for timber, resin, fodder, herbal medicine, and dyeing.
Butea[clarification needed] is also a host to thelac insect, which produces naturallacquer.[4]
Butea is named afterJohn Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute (1713-1792), member of parliament, prime minister for one year, and apatron ofbotany.[5]William Roxburgh erected the genusButea in 1795, but it became anomen invalidum.Carl Willdenow validated thenameButea in 1802.
Butea monosperma, called kiṃśukha inSanskrit, is used inAyurvedic medicine to treat various symptoms.[6]
Forty-two names have been published inButea,[7] but forty of these are eithersynonyms ornames of species that have been transferred to other genera.[4] Five species are currently accepted.[1]
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