929
Gloriosa
superba L.
Synonym
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Clinostylis speciosa
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Family
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Colchicaceae
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Local name
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English-Climbing lily
Malayalam-Menthonni
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Flowering and fruiting
period
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July-December
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Distribution
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Paleotropics
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Distribution in Kerala
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All Districts
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Habitat
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Semi-evergreen, moist deciduous and dry deciduous forests, also in
the plains
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Uses
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It is used in the treatment of snake bites, scorpion
stings, parasitic skin diseases, urological pains, colic, chronic ulcers,
piles, gonorrhoea
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Key botanical
characters :
Herbaceous climbers with tuberous roots.
Leaves subsessile, alternate, opposite or whorled, ovate-lanceolate, apex
acuminate, ending in a tendril. Flowers axilliary, solitary or in few-flowered,
terminal racemes. Perianth-lobes 6, free,
linear-oblong, reflexed or spreading, base narrow, margin undulate,
apex acuminate, yellowish below and reddish above. Stamens 6; filaments 3-4
cm long; anthers oblong-linear, versatile. Capsule ellipsoid-oblong; seeds
many, globose, warty.
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