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Phrynium pubinerve Blume
Synonyms
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Narukila ovata
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Family
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Marantaceae
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Local Name
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Malayalam – naru-kila
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Flowering and Fruiting Period
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April-July
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Distribution
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India, Sri Lanka and Malesia
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Distribution in Kerala
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Kottayam, Kollam, Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Malappuram
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Habitat
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Semi-evergreen and myristica swamp
forests
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Uses
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Used as natural food packaging materials
and traditional remedies for cough, fever, detoxification and stomach
disorders
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Key Botanical Characters:
Herbs with creeping
root stock. Leaves oblong, acuminate, base rounded or obtuse, to 30 x 18 cm;
petiole to 60 cm long. Spike globose, sessile on the petiole, 4-6 cm across.
Inner bracts ovate-oblong, fimbriate at apex. Corolla yellow. Outer
petaloidstaminodes orange-red. Lip with a pendulous appendage. Ovary
tomentose.
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