Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Herb
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Murex burmannii Kuntze |
| synonym | Pedalium microcarpum (Klotzsch) Decne. |
| synonym | Pedalium muricatum Salisb. |
| synonym | Rogeria microcarpa Klotzsch |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
A diffuse annual, much branched, spreading, succulent, glandular, up to 60 cm tall. Roots similar to turmeric in colour. Leaves simple, opposite, ovate or oblong-obovate, 1-4.5 cm long, 0.5-3 cm broad, truncate or obtuse, irregularly and coarsely crenate-serrate, glabrous above, minutely scaly below, petiole-l-4 cm. Flowers 1.5-2 cm across; pedicel 1-2 mm long, increasing up to 4 mm in fruit. Calyx c.2 mm long; teeth linear, scaly outside, persistent. Petals connate into a broad tube, 1-3 cm long; lobes obtuse. Stamens included, 0.5-1 cm long; filaments dilated, glandular hairy at the base; anthers kidney shaped. Fruit indehiscent, abruptly narrowed at the base and with a patent spreading spine at each basal corner of the broader part, 1-1.8 cm long, 0.5-1 cm broad, spine 2-4 mm long. Seeds 2 or 1 per locule, oblong.
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 |
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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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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Naturalized, Native of Tropical America
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
General Habitat
Wastelands
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
Tropical Africa, Sri Lanka, India and Pakistan
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts
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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Maharashtra: Kolhapur, Pune, Raigad, Ratnagiri, Sindhudurg, Thane
Kerala: All districts
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 |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
Siddha
Unani
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Unani, Siddha
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1607
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1607 |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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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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📚 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=1607
- Pedalium murex L., Syst. Nat. (ed.10) 1123. 1759; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 386. 1884; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1001(704). 1924; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 212. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 296. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 271. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 328. 1988; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 561. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 337. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 339. 1994; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 527. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 603. 2009.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
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=1607
- Pedalium murex L., Syst. Nat. (ed.10) 1123. 1759; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 386. 1884; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1001(704). 1924; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 212. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 296. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 271. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 328. 1988; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 561. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 337. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 339. 1994; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 527. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 603. 2009.
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Lamiales |
| Family | Pedaliaceae |
| Genus | Pedalium |
| Species | Pedalium murex L. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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