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Elephantopus scaber L.
Synonym
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Elephantopus carolinensis
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Family
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Asteraceae/Compositae
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Local name
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English - Prickly leaved elephant's foot
Malayalam – Aanayadi
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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October-January
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Distribution
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Pantropical
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Distribution
in kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Moist deciduous forests, also in the
plains
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Uses
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It has been used in traditional medicine
to stimulate diuresis, reduce fever and eliminate bladder stones, as well as
to treat nephritis, edema, dampness, chest pain, pneumonia, scabies, arthralgia
and leukemia
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Key Botanical Characters:
Scapigerous herbs;
whole plant scabrous. Leaves radical, rossetted at base, obovate to oblong or
oblanceolate, base attenuate, margin crenate, apex obtuse or broadly acute,
strigose above; cauline leaves small, narrow, sessile, base amplexicaule.
Heads, homogamous, non-rayed, sessile, aggregated in dense, stalked
glomerules, substened by 3 ovate, reduced leaves.Involucral bracts 2-seriate,
scarious.Flowers 2-5, bisexual.Corolla purple.
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