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Synonym |
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Blumea grandiflora Zipp. ex Span |
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Family |
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Capparaceae |
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Distribution |
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winter-deciduous species widespread in
Mediterranean Europe, Africa, Asia and Australia. |
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Habitat |
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winter-deciduous species |
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Uses |
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is one of the medicinal plants that have
been widely used in the traditional medicine during successive civilizations
to cure various health disorders and illnesses. A wide range of therapeutic
benefits are credited to caper extracts such as anti-hypertensive, anti
diabetic,anti obesity ,anti biotic properties. |
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Key botanical characters: The species C. spinosa is a winter-deciduous perennial
shrub. It is erect, precumbent or pendulous with branches being unramified or
multi-ramified, green, red or yellow, attending 4 m long. Twigs are tortuous
or straight, with or without simple hairs. Stipules are somewhat curved,
straight, setaceous or spreading, antrorse or retrorse, orange, yellow or
green, reaching 6 mm long. Leaf stipules may be formed into spines, granting
it the name “spinosa.” Leaves are rounded, or ovate, lanceloate or oblong,
ellipticial or obordate with an obtuse, tapering, acute or cordate base and
an acute, rounded, obcordate, truncate or obtuse apex. Leaf veins are
prominent or not. Leaf texture can be glabrous, pubescent and very dense.
Petiole is grooved or entire, 0–2 cm. Flowers are solitary, somewhat
zygomorphic mainly noctoflorous. Four white or white-pinkish petals, oblong,
obovate or rounded-ovate. Stamens are numerous with filaments up to 5 cm.
Gynophore is 3–6 mm long. Fruit is ellipsoidal, obovate or oblong. Seeds are
numerous and reddish-brown |
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