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Cansjera rheedei Gmel.
Synonym
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Cansjera lanceolata
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Family
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Opiliaceae
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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November-February
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Distribution
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India through Malaya to Hong Kong and North Australia
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Distribution
in kerala
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Palakkad, Alappuzha, Idukki, Kannur, Thrissur
Thiruvananthapuram, Malappuram, Wayanad, Kozhikode
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Habitat
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Dry deciduous forests and scrub jungles, also in sacred
groves.
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Uses
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Used for the treatment of post-natal
pain and the plant extract is used for the treatment of intermittent
fever.
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Key botanical characters :
Climbing shrubs, branchlets glabrous. Leaves alternate, ovate, apex acute, base rounded, rugose, shortly petiolate. Flowers
in axillary spikes, bisexual; calyx minute, 4-toothed; petals 4, united into
an urceolate tube, lobes valvate, reflexed; stamens 4, free; disc
4-lobed, lobes erect, tridentate; ovary oblong, 1-celled, ovule 1, style
cylindric; stigma capitate, 4-lobed. Fruit a drupe; seed 1.
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