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Stachytarpheta
mutabilis (Jacq.) Vahl
Synonym
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Cymburus mutabilis
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Family
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Verbenaceae
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Local name
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English- Pink snakeweed
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Flowering and fruiting
period
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February-March
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Distribution in Kerala
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Kasaragode, Kollam, Palakkad, Kannur,
Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikkode, Wayanad, Thrissur
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Habitat
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Grown as garden plant
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Endemic/Exotic
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Exotic
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Uses
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Leaf decoction with Aerva sanguinolenta used to treat painful
menstruation. Leaves used as
an abortifacient.
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Key botanical characters:
A shrub usually 1-2 m tall, mostly
pubescent throughout. Leaves 6-15 cm long and 4-8 cm wide, ovate or
oval-oblong, varying to oblong-lanceolate or subcordate-ovate, margins
crenate or serrate, apex acute, base narrowed and decurrent into petiole,
scabrous above and pubescent beneath. Flowers crimson fading to rose, borne
on spikes 30-60 cm long. Fruits (capsules) cylindrical, c.0.6 cm long.
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