921
Murdannia
semiteres (Dalz.) Sant
Family
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Commelinaceae
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Flowering and fruiting period
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October-December
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Distribution
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: Peninsular India
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Distribution
in kerala
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Kannur,
Palakkad, Alappuzha, Thrissur, Kasaragode, Kollam, Pathanamthitta,
Thiruvananthapuram, Kozhikkode
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Habitat
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Among sedges
and grasses
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Uses
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it is used as a folk medicine
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Key Botanical
Characters:
Erect
tufted slender herbs. Leaves 4 linear, filiform, semiterete, apex acuminate.
Panicles terminal, lax, longer than leaves, branches capillary; peduncles
reddish, 8-20 cm long. Flowers blue; pedicels filiform; bracts minute,
ocreate. Sepals obovate, acute. Petals blue, 2-4 mm long, obovate, apex
somewhat 3-loobed. Staminal filaments naked. Ovary glabrous; ovules 2-seriate
in each cell. Capsule 2-3 mm long, subglobose or ovoid, angular; seeds
2-seriate, 6-8 in each cell, smooth, compressed.
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