Edgeworthia gardneri

Edgeworthia gardneri (Wall.) Meisn.
Family: Thymelaeaceae
Synonyms: Daphne gardneri Wall., Edgeworthia albiflora Nakai

Other names: Nepali Paper Bush, Indian Paper Tree
Bhutan: dekar
Nepal:  अर्गली Argal
Chinese: 山棉皮 , dian jie xiang, jie xiang, meng hua
Japanese: mitsumata

Desctiption: Trees small, to 3-4 m tall. Stem brownish red; branchlets glabrous or sparsely sericeous at apex. Petiole 4-8 mm, puberulous; leaf blade narrowly elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, 6-10 × 2.5-3.4 cm, both surfaces appressed pubescent, base cuneate, apex acute; lateral veins 8 or 9 pairs, conspicuous. Inflorescences terminal and axillary, capitate, 3.5-4 cm in diam., 30-50-flowered; peduncle pendulous, 2-2.5(-5) cm, white sericeous at anthesis, glabrescent; bracts caducous, leaflike, narrowly lanceolate. Calyx ca. 15 mm, exterior densely white sericeous; lobes 4, yellow adaxially, ovate, ca. 3.5 × 2.5 mm, abaxially densely sericeous, apex acute or rounded. Disk scale lacerate. Ovary ellipsoid, ca. 5 mm, uniformly densely grayish white sericeous; style pubescent, ca. 2 mm; stigma globose, ca. 3 mm. Drupe ovoid, densely sericeous. Fl. late winter and early spring, fr. summer. 

Juice  of  root  and  stem  used  for  eye  disorders.  Bark  and leaves as fish poison. [CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants]

8 Published articles of Edgeworthia gardneri
1. Alpha-Glucosidase Inhibitory Activity of the Alabastrum of Edgeworthia gardneri (Wall.) Meissn
Journal of Food Science and Biotechnology  Volume: 32   Issue: 9   Pages: 967-971   Article Number: 1673-1689(2013)32:9<967:djxhdp>2.0.TX;2-S   Published: 2013

2. Chemical constituents from Edgeworthia gardneri (Thymelaeaceae)
Xu, Pan; Xia, Zhining; Lin, Yexin
BIOCHEMICAL SYSTEMATICS AND ECOLOGY  Volume: 45   Pages: 148-150   Published: DEC 2012

3. Biscoumarin derivatives from Edgeworthia gardneri that inhibit the lyase activity of DNA polymerase beta
Li, SS; Gao, ZJ; Feng, XZ; et al.
JOURNAL OF NATURAL PRODUCTS  Volume: 67   Issue: 9   Pages: 1608-1610   Published: SEP 2004

4. Propagation of Edgeworthia gardneri Meissn. by branch cuttings.
Basnet, D. B.
Environment and Ecology  Volume: 19   Issue: 2   Pages: 485-486   Published: 2001

5. NEW COUMARINS FROM EDGEWORTHIA-GARDNERI MEISSN
CHATTERJEE, A; CHAKRABARTI, R; DAS, B; et al.
INDIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY SECTION B-ORGANIC CHEMISTRY INCLUDING MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY  Volume: 26   Issue: 1   Pages: 81-81   Published: JAN 1987
   
6. BIS-COUMARINS FROM EDGEWORTHIA-GARDNERI
CHAKRABARTI, R; DAS, B; BANERJI, J
PHYTOCHEMISTRY  Volume: 25   Issue: 2   Pages: 557-558   Published: 1986

7. EDGEWORTHIN, A NEW BIS-COUMARIN FROM EDGEWORTHIA-GARDNERI
MAJUMDER, PL; SENGUPTA, GC; DINDA, BN; et al.
PHYTOCHEMISTRY  Volume: 13   Issue: 9   Pages: 1929-1931   Published: 1974

8. Chromosome number of ( Edgeworthia gardneri).
NAKAO, S.; WATANABE, T.
Ikushugaku Zasshi = Japanese Journal of Breeding  Volume: 16   Pages: 272-77   Published: 1966