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Premna serratifolia L.
Synonym
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Cornutia corymbosa Burm.f.
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Family
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Lamiaceae
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Local name
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English - Headache tree
Malayalam - Munja, Kozhichedi
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Flowering and fruiting period
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May-November
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Distribution
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Indo-Malesia
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Distribution in Kerala
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Kottayam, Kannur,
Kozhikode, Kasaragode, Thrissur, Ernakulam
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Habitat
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Moist sandy soil and
scrub jungles along seacoasts and mangrove forests
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Uses
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A tea made from the
boiled bark is used to treat neuralgia.
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Key
Botanical Characters:
Large shrub to small
trees, to 7 m high. Leaves simple, opposite, estipulate;, Flowers bisexual,
greenish-white, in terminal corymbose panicled cymes; bracts small; calyx
small campanulate,; corolla tube short, villous inside, lobes 5; stamens 4,
didynamous, inserted below the throat of the corolla tube; anther ovate;
ovary superior, 2-4-celled, ovules 4; style linear; stigma shortly bifid. Fruit
a drupe, seated on the calyx, globose, purple; seeds oblong.
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