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Synonyms |
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Spilanthes
ciliata HBK, N |
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Family |
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ASTERACEAE |
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Local name |
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Malayalam-
Pallu-vedana-chedi |
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Flowering and
fruiting period |
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August-December |
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Distribution |
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naturalised
in Western Peninsular India |
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Distribution
in kerala |
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All
Districts |
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Habitat |
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Wet or marshy areas |
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Uses |
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use as an herbal remedy for
toothache and oral infections earned it |
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Key Botanical
Characters: Diffuse herbs rooting at lower
nodes; stem terete. Leaves simple,opposite, 7 x 4 cm, ovate, base rounded or
subcordate, margins serrate, apex acute; petiole 1-2.5 cm long. Heads rayed,
axillary, usually solitary, rarely 2-3 in each axil, c. 1 cm across,
subglobose, turning conical, yellow; peduncle 3-8 cm long. Involucral bracts
2-seriate, shorter than ray florets, inner series narrower and smaller, up to
6 x 2 mm, elliptic, subacute. Palea c. 3 mm long, boat-shaped, concave,
obtuse, keeled. Ray florets 8-12, female, ligulate; corolla tube c. 1 mm
long, limb 3-lobed; pappus of 3 awns, deciduous; achenes trigonous, black,
strongly margined and ciliate along the margins. Disc florets many,
biusexual; pappus of 2 unequal bristles; corolla tube c. 2 mm long, lobes
much shorter than the tube; achenes c. 2 x 0.5 mm, oblong, truncate at apex,
laterally compressed, black, stronglyt margined, ciliate along the margins.  |
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