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Mollugo cerviana var. cerviana
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Family:
MOLLUGINACEAE
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Citation: Mollugo cerviana (L.) Ser. in DC., Prodr. 1: 392.1824, var. cerviana; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2:663.1879; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 553(390). 1919; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 126. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 198. 1984; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 305. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 220. 1990; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 331. 2009.
Pharnaceum cerviana L., Mant. Pl. 2: 272. 1771.
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Description:
Erect slender annual herbs upto 20 cm tall, with slender, cylindrical stems, branches unbellate, the nodes thickened; roots aromatic. Leaves in dense whorls of 4-8 at each node, sessile or subsessile, often glaucous; radical leaves 6-13 mm long, spathulate or linear-spathulate; cauline leaves 0.6-2 cm long and c.1 mm wide, narrow-linear, apiculate, 2-8 in a whorl. Flowers numerous, on stiff filiform pedicels to 1.2 cm long, usually in groups of 3 on long, filiform axillary and terminal peduncles. Sepals 2.5 mm long, elliptic-oblong, obtuse with white membranous margins, persisting and closely enclosing the capsules at maturity. Stamens 5, shorter than sepals. Ovary broadly ovoid, at anthesis, shorter than calyx, trilocular, stigmas 3, sessile. Capsules rounded, equalling the sepals, dehiscing into 3 broadly ovate emarginate valves; seeds numerous smooth, yellowish-brown, without tubercular points.
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Habit:
Herb
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Flowering & Fruiting:
May-October
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District(s):
Alappuzha, Kollam, Palakkad, Kozhikkode
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Medicinal:
Yes
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Habitat:
Sandy sea coasts and river banks
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Distribution:
Paleotropics
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Walayar, Nagamkulangara
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