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Myxopyrum smilacifolium (Wall.) Blume
Synonym
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Chionanthus
smilacifolius Wall.
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Family
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Oleaceae
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Local name
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Malayalam
- Chathuramulla
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Flowering and fruiting period
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February-August
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Distribution
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South East Asia and
India
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Distribution in Kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Semi-evergreen and
evergreen forests, also in sacred groves
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Uses
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The whole plant is
used to treat asthma, rheumatism, headache, fever, otopathy, neuropathy and
cephalalgia.
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Key
Botanical Characters:
Twining shrubs;
branches 4-angular. Leaves simple, opposite, elliptic-ovate or oblong, base
rounded to subcordate, margins serrulate from the middle towards apex, apex
acuminate, basally 5-nerved, subcoriaceous; petiole to 1.2 cm long. Flowers
in axillary trichotomous short panicles, 4-merous, bisexual. Calyx 1-1.5 cm
long, lobes 4. Corolla yellowish, tube 1-2 mm long; lobes 4. Stamens 2,
included. Ovary 2-locular; ovules 1-2-per locule; stigma 2-lobed. Berry
globose, black; seeds 2.
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