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Cyanotis axillaris L.
Synonym
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Amischophacelus axillaris
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Family
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Commelinaceae
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Local name
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English- Creeping Cradle Plant
Malayalam-Neerpullu
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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August-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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Degraded deciduous forests and moist places
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IUCN Status
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LC
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Uses
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This species is used to treat boils and ascites. A plant is decoction of
the whole plant is reportedly used in
swellings above the abdomen.
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Key botanical characters:
Fleshy decumbent, glabrous herbs, rooting at lower nodes,
often purple-suffused. Leaves 3-7 x 0.5-0.8 cm, linear, apex acute or
acuminate; sheath to 7 mm long, mouth ciliate. Inflorescence in axillary cymose
clusters, enclosed within the leaf sheath; bracteoles 1-2 mm long, linear.
Flowers 6-7 mm across. Calyx connate, tube 2-4 mm long, pilose; lobes
lanceolate. Corolla blue; tube to 3 mm, lobes to 4 mm, ovate. Stamens 6;
filaments pink with purple pilose hairs. Ovary c. 1.5 mm, woolly, 3-celled;
ovules 2 per cell on axile placentae; style c.1.5 mm long, pilose; stigma
3-fid. Capsule 5-6 mm long, oblong, apex beaked; seeds 6, c. 2 mm, oblong,
pitted.
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