CHAPTER 2LITERATURE REVIEW2.1 Phyll

CHAPTER 2
LITERATURE REVIEW
2.1 Phyllathus emblica L.
2.1.1 Taxa and Classification of Phyllanthus emblica L. (4, 27)
Kingdom : Plantae (Plants)
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta (Vascular plants)
Superdivision : Spermatophyta (Seed plants)
Division : Magnoliophyta (Flowering plants)
Class : Magnoliopsida (Dicotyledons)
Subclass : Rosidae
Order : Euphobiales
Family : Euphobiaceae (Spurge family)
Genus : Phyllanthus L. (leaf flower)
Species : Phyllanthus emblica L. (emblic)
Plant Synonyms : Emblica officinalis Gaertn.
Common names : Emblica, Amala, Indian gooseberry
Phyllanthus emblica Linn., formerly Phyllanthus emblica L., is known in
Thai name as Ma-Kham-Pom (4, 5) and commonly called Emblica, Amala or Indian
gooseberry. It has a habitat in tropical and subtropical forest in South East Asia and
South Asia.
Description of the plant: (5, 6)
P. emblica is a small or medium-sized tree, up to 20 m high, deciduous, with
crooked trunk and spreading branches; bark greenish gray, peeling off in conchoidal
flakes; branchlets glabrous or finely pubescent 10 to 20 cm long.
Leaves imbricate when young, subsessile, 0.5 to 2.5 cm by 1.5 to 5.5 mm,