Mashonaste (Clarisia Racemosa Ruiz & Pav‌)

Mashonaste in Peru is the name of a plant defined with Clarisia racemosa in various botanical sources. This page contains potential references in Ayurveda, modern medicine, and other folk traditions or local practices It has the synonym Sorocea nitida Warb. (among others).

Tree, to 40 m tall; bark conspicuously lenticellate, that of the base of the trunk and of the (larger) roots reddish. Leafy twigs 0.5-3.5 mm thick, minutely puberulous to subglabrous. Lamina elliptic to lanceolate, 4-14 × 2-6.5 cm, often broadest below the middle, sometimes slightly inequilateral, coriaceous to subcoriaceous; apex acuminate to subacute; base acute to obtuse to truncate (to emarginate); margin entire; upper surface glabrous; lower surface sparsely puberulous; venation ± prominent to plane above, but the midrib mostly ± impressed, the venation ± prominent beneath; lateral veins 9-18 pairs; tertiary venation reticulate; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm long, 1-2 mm thick, sparsely and minutely puberulous; stipules broadly ovate to subcordiform, 0.1-0.3 cm long, minutely puberulous, caducous. Staminate inflorescences on (usually) leafless branchlets, sometimes on short-shoots (spurs), often on the older wood; peduncle 0.1-0.8 cm long, minutely puberulous; spike 1-10(-l 8) cm long; tepals 3-7, free or sometimes connate, variously shaped, 0.5-0.8 mm long, minutely puberulous; stamens 1-2(-3), filaments 0.3-1 mm long, anthers ca. 0.3-0.4 × 0.3-0.4 mm; bracts variously shaped, partly suborbicular and subpeltate, ca. 0.5-0.6 × 0.5-0.8 cm, often ± fimbriate, minutely puberulous, and with minute, embedded yellow dye-containing "glands." Pistillate inflorescences on (usually) leafless branchlets, sometimes on short-shoots (spurs), usually on the older wood; peduncle 0.4 cm long, to 1.5 cm long in fruit, minutely puberulous; flowers 1, or sometimes 2; perianth 3-4 mm long, subentire to 4-lobed, puberulous in the uppermost part, and with minute, embedded yellow dye-containing "glands"; ovary adnate to the perianth; style 1-3 mm long; stigmas filiform, 4-7 mm long; bracts 3-7, suborbicular to broadly ovate, often subpeltate, 0.8-1.2 mm long, minutely puberulous, and with minute, embedded yellow dye-containing "glands" Fruiting perianth subglobose to ellipsoid, 1.5-3(-4) × 1-1.7(-2.4) cm, glabrous, orange to red; endocarp woody. 

Species	Mashonaste (*Clarisia Racemosa Ruiz & Pav‌)
Origin	South Africa
Grade	AIC
Thickness	18mm to 300mm
Width	40mm to 300mm
Length	4m to 8m
Drying	KD, AD
Prominent Uses