Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Herb
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📚 Overview
Description
Annual acaulescent herbs. Leaves radical, 2.5-4 x 1.3-2 cm, obovate to spathulate, base attenuate, margin entire, apex rounded , glabrous, subsessile. Cymes terminal, corymbose. Pedicel filiform to 4 mm long. Tepals 5, 2-3 mm long, elliptic, hooded, white. Stamens 3-5; filament c.1.5 mm long. Ovary oblong, 3-lobed, 3-celled; stigmas 3, sessile, flat, spreading, papillose. Capsule c. 2 mm long, ellipsoid. Seeds many, oblique-reniform, reddish-black, thickly tuberculate.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Habit: Herb
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Deciduous forests and sandy seacoasts.
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Deciduous forest and sandy seacoasts
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Description
Global Distribution
Pantropical
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Alappuzha, Kollam, Idukki, Thiruvananthapuram, Malappuram, Kozhikkode
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Kerala: Alapuzha, Idukki, Kollam, Kozhikode, Malapuram, Thiruvananthapuram
Tamil Nadu: All districts
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Folk medicine
Medicinal
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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System Of Medicines Used In
Folk medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=3780
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=3780 |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983
- Mollugo nudicaulis Lam., Encycl. 4: 234. 1797; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 664. 1879; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 553(390). 1919; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 126. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 199. 1984; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 307. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 213. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 158. 1995; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 141. 1999; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 332. 2009.
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=3780
Information Listing > References
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. I, 1983
- Mollugo nudicaulis Lam., Encycl. 4: 234. 1797; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 664. 1879; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 553(390). 1919; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 126. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 199. 1984; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 307. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 213. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 158. 1995; Sasidh., Fl. Chinnar WLS 141. 1999; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 332. 2009.
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=3780
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
| Order | Caryophyllales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl |
| Family | Molluginaceae |
| Genus | Mollugo |
| Species | Mollugo nudicaulis Lam. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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