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Urena lobata L.
Synonym
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Urena lobata var. americana
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Family
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Malvaceae
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Local name
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English - Congo Jute
Malayalam- Uram
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Flowering and
fruiting period
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August-December
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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 and in the plains
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Uses
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Used for Rheumatism,
Lumbago and Skin diseases associated with pain and inflammation. Boiled and
crushed leaves of are used as a Poultice for Bladder and
Intestinal Inflammation
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Key botanical
characters :
Erect
annual herbs. Leaves plametly deeply lobed, alternate, base truncate, velvety
tomentose on both sides, to 7-ribbed at base. Flowers axillary, usually
solitary, sometimes 2 or 3 in a cluster;.Involucral bracts connate at base, clothed
with rigid hairs. Calyx campanulate, 5-parted; lobes ovate-elliptic, margins
pubescent. Corolla pink with dark center; petals obovate with rounded apex,
stellate-hairy without. Staminal column, pinkish; anthers pale pink. Ovary
subglobose, stiff-hirsute; Stigmas capitate. Schizocarp globose; trigonous,
densely stellate-pubescent, also with many glochidate spines; seeds reniform,
angular.
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