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Synonym |
: |
Spilanthes radicans |
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Family |
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Asteraceae |
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Local Name |
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English-White Spot-Flower |
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Flowering
and fruiting period |
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September- January |
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Habitat |
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Moist area |
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Uses |
: |
it
relieve toothache and affections of throat and gum. flower heads are known as
a remedy for stammering children |
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Key Botanical Characters
: White
Spot-Flower is an annual herb native to parts of Africa. It has become
naturalized in parts of India, and is believed to be invasive. It is an erect
to prostrate herb up to 1 m high, lower nodes often without roots. Stalks
with internodes 0.5 to 13 cm in length. Leaves have stalks 0.2-2 cm long,
blade 1-9 cm long and 0.3-5.5 cm wide, ovate to ovate-lanceshaped, base
broad, pointed to long-pointed at the tip, margin entire or with short teeth.
Inflorescence is terminal or in leaf axils, solitary or paired cones.
Disc-shaped flower-heads are carried on stalks up to 7 cm long, with
spindle-shaped receptacle, up to 1.5 mm in diameter and 6 mm in height.
Flowers are up to 2 mm long, 5 lobed. Achenes are up to 1.5 mm long, hairless
to hairy spread distally, the margins ciliate, pappus consisting of 2 fine
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