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Evolvulus alsinoides L.
Synonym
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Convolvulus alsinoides
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Family
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Convolvulaceae
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Local name
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Malayalam – Krishnakranti
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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March-August
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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 and dry
deciduous forests, also in the plains
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Uses
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The whole plant is used in the Goa
territory. It is used extensively as a febrifuge and tonic. With cumin and
milk it is used for fevers nervous debility, and loss of memory; also for
syphilis, scrofula, etc. it is said to be a sovereign remedy for bowel
complaints, especially dysentery.
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Key Botanical Characters :.
Small prostrate much brnached villous
herbs; branches radiating from rootstock. Leaves more or less distinctly in 2
rows, 6-12 x 4-7 mm, broadly elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, base rounded or
acute, apex subacute, adpressedpilose on both sides; petiole to 2 mm long.
Flowers solitary or paired, at axils; pedicels to 5 mm long, silky hairy;
bracts linear, c. 1 mm long. Calyx lobes 2-3 mm long, lanceolate, silky
hairy. Corolla c. 1 cm across, rotate, subentire, blue.Ovules 2 in each cell;
styles 2, each longitudinally 2-fid.Capsule 1.5-2 mm across, globose,
2-valved.Seeds usually 4, minute.
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