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Ipomoea quamoclit L.
Synonym
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Convolvulus pennatifolius
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Family
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Convolvulaceae
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Local name
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English-Star-glory
Malayalam-Akasha-mulla
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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October-December
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Distribution
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Introduced from Tropical America, established in Tropical
Asia as an escape
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Distribution
in kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Grown as garden plants, now getting naturalised
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Endemic/Exotic
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Exotic
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Uses
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It has antioxidant activity, antimicrobial activity,
anticancer activity, antidiabetic activity as well as insecticidal activity
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Key botanical characters:
Slender twining herbs. Leaves alternate, pinnately
dissected, 1.5-4.5 cm long, lobes many, 1-1.5 cm long, very narrowly linear,
glabrous. Flowers solitary, axillary or in few flowered axillary cymes;
peduncles 4-5 cm long; pedicels 1-2 cm long. Calyx lobes 0.4-0.5 cm long,
lanceolate. Corolla red; lobes 0.4-0.6 x 0.25-0.3 cm, ovate. Filaments
unequal, exserted. Ovary 0.2-0.3 cm long, 4-celled; ovule 1 in each cell;
stigmas capitate. Capsule 0.8-1 x 0.5-0.6 cm, ovoid; seeds 4, 0.4-0.5 x
0.1-0.15 cm, compressed, conical, black on drying.
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