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Heliotropium
indicum L.
Synonym
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Eliopia riparia
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Family
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Boraginaceae
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Local name
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English
- Indian turnsole
Malayalam - Thekkida
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Flowering and fruiting period
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September-March
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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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Along lakeshores and paddy fields during summer
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Uses
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It used widely for centuries
on warts and to treat inflammations and tumours.
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Key
Botanical Characters:
Erect, branched, pubescent herbs. Leaves simple, opposite, sub-deltoid or broadly ovate, apex acute, base turncate, margin
undulate, chartaceous; petiole 3-6 cm long. Flowers sessile, in terminal or
leaf-opposed curved, to 20 cm long spikes. Calyx- lobes 5, linear, acute. Corolla pale violet or pink, salver-form; slightly constricted distally, 5 -lobed; lobes ovate. Stamens
5, sub-sessile, free. Ovary weakly 4-lobed; stigma conical. Nutlets connate
in pairs, separating later, ribbed, each nutlet 2-3 mm long.
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