| Author : (Lour.) DC. |
| Family : Capparaceae |
| Habit: Small tree |
| Sanskrit: Varunah, Setu vrksha, Marutapaha |
| English: Three-leaved caper |
A medium-sized tree, up to 10 m tall, with lenticellate, greyish-brown, smooth branchlets, digitately 3-foliolate, central leaflet elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, laterals ovate-elliptic or rhomboidal, many-flowered terminal corymbs, pale yellow to creamy, polygamous, faintly fragrant flowers, in terminal corymbs, oblong-ellipsoid or oblong-ovate, yellowish-grey fruits, turning red when ripe containing many dark brown, dorsally crested, tubercled, reniform seeds embedded in creamy-yellow pulp.
Bark, leaves, root
urinary disorders, worm infestations, cough, asthma, bronchitis, skin diseases, tubercular glands, pectoral diseases, intermittent fevers, inflammation liver diseases, diarrhoea, dysentery, antidote
lupeol, lupen-3-one, β-sitosterol, rutin, quercetin, verunol, lauric, stearic, undecyclic, oleic and linoleic acids, triterpene alcohol-lupa-21, 20 (29) dien-3 β-ol, 3-epilupeol, psi-taraxasterol, pentacyclic and triterpene alcohol, ceryl alcohol, friedelin, betulinic acid, diosgenin, lupeol, (-) epiafzelechin-5-0-b-D-glucoside, 2 hexenal, 3-hexen-1-ol, p-cymene, limonene, linalool and α- & β-ionones, 1-stachydrine, cetyl alcohol, triacontane, triacontanol, glucocapparin, varunol, lupenone, 4-taraxasterol, cadabicine