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Sida alnifolia L.
Synonym
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Sida
rhombifolia L. ssp. alnifolia (L.) Ugborogho
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Family
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Malvaceae
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Local name
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Malayalam –
Kurunthotti
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Flowering and
fruiting period
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September-December
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Distribution
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Indo-Malesia
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Distribution in
kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Moist deciduous
forests, also in the plains
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Uses
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Depresses the normal
blood pressure. It is a tonic in wasting diseases, cures ulcer and
biliousness, useful in urinary infection, leprosy and skin infection. The
leaves possess demulcent and refrigerant properties and useful in gonorrhea and scalding urine.
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Key
botanical characters:
Ubshrubs to 40 cm
tall, strongly branched. Leaves simple, alternate,obovate to
elliptic-lanceolate, apex retuse, base obtuse or rounded, margins irregularly
serrate-dentate upper surface sparsely
pubescent, lower surface densely greyish tomentose. Flowers axillary,
solitary; Calyx pubescent, 5-lobed; lobes ovate to triangular. Petals
yellow, obliquelyobovate.
Staminalcolumn antheriferous at apex.
Ovary depressedglobose; styles 7-10; stigma capitate, creamy-yellow.
Schizocarp to 4 mm long; mericarps 7-10, included in the calyx, with a pair
of short obtuse mucro at apex; seeds c. 2 mm long, black.
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