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Asparagus
racemosus Willd.
Synonym
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Protasparagus
racemosus
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Family
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Asparagaceae
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Local name
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English - Asparagus
Malayalam - Sathavari, Thannivayan-kizhangu
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Flowering and fruiting period
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July - August
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Distribution
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Paleotropics
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Distribution in Kerala
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All
Districts
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Habitat
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All forest
types, also in the plains
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Uses
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The roots are used to treat
nervous disorders, dyspepsia, tumours, scalding of urine, throat infections,
tuberculosis, cough bronchitis and general debility.
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Key
Botanical Characters:
Woody
perennial climbers; stem often spinescent, terete, green; rootstock with
fascicled elongated tuberous roots. Cladodes from the axils of scale leaves in
clusters, linear-falcate, slightly triquetrous, base narrow, apex acute.
Racemes 2.5-5 cm long, slender, axillary, solitary or clustered. Flowers
bisexual, bracts triangular. Perianth-lobes 6, white, 3 x 0.5 mm, oblong,
acute. Stamens 6, adnate to the perianth lobes; filaments subulate. Ovary 2-3
mm long, globose to slightly 3-gonous, 3-celled; ovules 2 per cell; stigma 3,
recurved. Berry globose, purple on ripening; seeds 2-5.
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