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Murdannia
nudiflora (L.) Brenan
Synonym
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Aneilema semiteres
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Family
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Commelinaceae
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Flowering and fruiting period
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September-November
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Distribution
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Indo-Malesia
and Africa
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Distribution
in kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Grasslands, also in the plains
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Uses
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Used locally for the treatment of diseases
like asthma,leprosy,piles etc.
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Key Botanical
Characters:
Procumbent
herbs; rooting at lower nodes. Leaves sessile, linear or linear-lanceolate,
base rounded, apex acute or acuminate; sheath to 1.2 cm long, margin ciliate.
Flowers in terminal and axillary few-flowered, subglobose or subcorymbose
panicles. Sepals 2 mm long, oblong, obtuse. Petals 2-2.5 mm long, oblong,
acute, bluish-purple. Staminal filaments bearded; staminodes 3 with filaments
bearded or not. Capsule globose,yellowish green; seeds 2- per locule, cuboid,
deeply pitted.reticulate
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