Habit: Herb
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Boerhavia bastica Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. |
| synonym | Boerhavia chinensis (L.) Rottb. |
| synonym | Boerhavia repanda Willd. |
| synonym | Commicarpus repandus (Willd.) Standl. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
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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Habit: A small diffuse, scandent herb, upto 70cm.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
Flower
In axillary, dichotomous umbels; pink. Flowering from November-January.
Fruit
An oblong-fusiform anthocarp, 10-ribbed, wart like appendages many, sessile. Fruiting January onwards.
Field tips
Differs from Boerhavia by its 10-ribbed anthocarp with wart like appendages.
Leaf Arrangement
Opposite
Leaf Type
Simple
Leaf Shape
Triangular-ovate
Leaf Apex
Acute-apiculate
Leaf Base
Truncate-subcordate
Leaf Margin
Shallowly lobed
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Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Along hedges
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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📚 Habitat and Distribution
Description
Maharashtra: Ahmednagar, Nasik, Pune, Thane
Karnataka: Chikmagalur, Dharwar, Hassan, Mysore, N. Kanara, Shimoga
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 |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Found along the stream banks and wastelands from plains to 750m. Rare. India, Pakistan, S. China, Malay Peninsula and Islands, Thailand, Vietnam and Africa
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Folk medicine
Siddha
System Of Medicines Used In
Folk medicine, Siddha
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=4453
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=4453 |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- 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=4453
Information Listing > References
- 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=4453
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
| Order | Caryophyllales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl |
| Family | Nyctaginaceae |
| Genus | Commicarpus |
| Species | Commicarpus chinensis (L.) Heimerl |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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