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Breynia vitis –idaea (Burm.f.)C.E.C.Fisch
Synonyms
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Breynia accrescens
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Family
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Euphorbiaceae
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Local Name
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English - snow berry
Malayalam – niruri
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Flowering and Fruiting Period
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July
to December
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Distribution
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India,
Malaysia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Nepal
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Distribution in Kerala
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Calicut,
Malappuram, Wayanad, Kollam
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Habitat
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Southern China, Indian subcontinent through tropical Asia
to Indonesia.
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IUCN Status
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LC
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Uses
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Used
for tonsillitis, menorrhagia, hemorrhage, piles, leucorrhea, diabetes, and
dental cares. This plant is also
having larvicidal properties. The leaf paste applied on the affected part
cures skin problems.
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Key Botanical Characters:
It is an erect shrub up to 3 m tall,
glaborous; stipules ovate triangular. Leaf is simple, alternate, green, egg
shaped, leaf blade elliptic often rarely ovate or broadly ovate distichous,
base obtuse, apex acute. The flower is small, green, solitary or several in
axillary racemes divide in male and female flowers. Male flowers in axillary,
perianth turbinate, yellow, lobes 5; stamens 3. Female flowers axillary,
solitary, reddish, perianthcampanulate, 5-6 lobed; ovary 3- celled; style short;
stigmas 3, sunk at top of ovary fruits ovoid, compressed at apex, apex
sometimes obscurely beaked, without apical rim, red and twining black-purple
when fully mature, drying shiny brown.
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