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Diploclisia glaucescens (Blume)Diels
Synonym
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Cebatha macrocarpa (Wight
&Arn.) Kuntze
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Family
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Menispermaceae
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Local name
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Malayalam-Vattavalli
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Flowering and fruiting period
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March-August
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Distribution
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Indo-Malesia and
China
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Distribution in kerala
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Palakkad, Kozhikkode, Kasaragode, Kollam,
Idukki, Pathanamthitta, Malappuram, Kannur, Thiruvananthapuram, Thrissur,
Wayanad
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Habitat
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Evergreen, semi-evergreen and moist deciduous
forests
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Uses
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The leaf extract is given for rapid cure from diarrhoea. Powdered
leaf with milk given in biliousness, gonorrhoea and syphilis
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Key botanical
characters:
Woody climbers. Leaves simple, alternate,6-8
cm across, broadly ovate to orbicular, apex obtuse, base truncate or some
times slightly cordate, glaucous below, margin entire, membranous; petiole
1.5-3 cm long. Flowers unisexual, in large drooping panicles, bright
yellow.Sepals 6 in two whorls, 3 mm long, obovate.Petals 6, smaller than
sepals concave with incurved margins, 2 mm long, obovate, emarginated.Stamens
6 in male flowers, staminodes absent. Carpels 3 in female flowers, free;
style cylindric. Drupe compressed, curved, tubercled.
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