809
Crinum
viviparum (Lam.) R. Ansari B
& V.J. Nair
Synonym
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Crinum
vivipara Lam.
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Family
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Amaryllidaceae
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Local
name
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Malayalam-
Puzha lilly
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Flowering
and fruiting period
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Throughout
the year
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Distribution
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India and
Sri Lanka
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Distribution
in Kerala
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Alappuzha,Kasaragode,Kollam,Thiruvananthapuram,Kozhikkode, Kannur, Wayanad
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Habitat
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Along banks
of streams and rivers, and mangrove forests
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Uses
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It is used
by the Gujjars for treatment of different skin ailments, viz. allergy,
blisters,boils, chilblain, cracked feet, cuts, eczema, leprosy, leucoderma,
ringworms, sore and wounds.
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Key
botanical characters:
An erect herb with large globose or oblong bulbs 7.5-10 cm in diam. Leaves few or many,linear,concave or channelled, thick, margins slightly rough, apex acute or obtuse. Flowers white to reddish, borne in 6-15 flowered umbels on a 45-75 cm long, cylindrical stalk, with 2 oblong-lanceolate bracts 3.8-5 cm long; perianth tube 6-13 cm long, cylindrical, segments nearly as long, narrowly linear-lanceolate, reflexed or drooping, filaments shorter than perianth segments, spreading, bright red. Fruit subglobose, 2.5 cm in diam, short-stalked, beaked by the perianth tube; seeds rugose.
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