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Crinum viviparum (Lam.) R.
Synonyms
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Crinum viviparum var. ensifolium
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Family
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Amaryllidaceae
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Local Name
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English - River crinum lily
Malayalam – Veluthapolathali
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Flowering and Fruiting Period
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Throughout the year
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Distribution
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India and Sri Lanka
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Distribution in Kerala
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Alappuzha, Kasaragode, Kollam,
WayanadThiruvananthapurm,Kozhikkode, Kannur,
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Habitat
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Along banks of streams and rivers, and
mangrove forests
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IUCN Status
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LC
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Uses
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Leaf extract is used for treatment for vomiting
and for ear-aches.
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Key Botanical Characters:
An erect herb with large globose or oblong bulbs 7.5-10 cm
in diam. Leaves few or many, 60-90 cm long and 2-4 cm wide, linear, concave
or channelled, thick, margins slightly rough, apex acute or obtuse. Flowers
white to reddish, borne in 6-15 flowered umbels on a 45-75 cm long,
cylindrical stalk, with 2 oblong-lanceolate bracts 3.8-5 cm long; perianth
tube 6-13 cm long, cylindrical, segments nearly as long, narrowly
linear-lanceolate, reflexed or drooping, filaments shorter than perianth
segments, spreading, bright red. Fruit subglobose, 2.5 cm in diam.,
short-stalked, beaked by the perianth tube; seeds rugose.
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