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Limnophila aromatica (Lam.) Merr.
Synonym
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Limnophila aromaticoides
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Family
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Scrophulariaceae
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Local name
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English-Rice paddy herb
Malayalam-Manga-nari
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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, China, Japan to Northern Australia
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Distribution
in kerala
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Alappuzha, Idukki, Kollam, Pathanamthitta, Wayanad
Thiruvananthapuram
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Habitat
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Marshy areas
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IUCN Status
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LC
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Uses
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Used for foul ulcers, agalactia,
galactic impurities, anorexia, dyspepsia, helminthiasis, constipation,
inflammations and strangury. - Plant juice used as cooling medicine for fever and
pharyngitis
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Key botanical characters:
Erect fleshy glabrous herbs, to 60 cm tall. Leaves opposite
or in whorls of 3, 2-6 x 1-1.5 cm, oblong-lanceolate, rounded and
semi-amplexicaul at base, margin serrulate, apex subacute, penninerved,
punctate, sessile. Flowers in many-flowered, terminal or axillary racemes;
pedicels 5-12 mm, finely glandular. Calyx campanulate, glandular; tube c. 3
mm; lobes 5, sub-equal, 3- 5 mm long, lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla purple, c.
1 cm across; tube 8-10 mm long, sparsely glandular without, densely villous
within. Stamens 4; posterior filaments villous. Ovary c. 2 mm long,
ellipsoid; stigma white. Capsule 4-5 mm across, subglobose. Seeds many,
minute, angular, blackish-brown.
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