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Amaranthus viridis

Scientific Name
Amaranthus viridis
Family Name
Amaranthaceae
Common Names
Amaranth
Local Names
Notey shak (Bangladesh), Tampala (Sri Lanka)
Description
A much branched, erect annual, stern 30cm tall, cylindrical, glabrous and shining,purplish; leaves simple, alternate, 3-6.3cm long, 1.6-4,7cm broad, ovate, truncate oracute at base, notched at apex with a spine at the base of the notch, glabrous on bothsides, margin very finely and faintly serrate, reddish, veins 5-8 pairs, prominentbelow; petioles 0.8-5.4cm long; flowers small, unisexual, monoecious, sessile inclusters on slender. tapering, interrupted, terminal and axillary paniculate spikes;bracts O.5-1.Smm long, 0.2-0.4mm broad broad, ovate, acute, glabrous; perianth 3,broadly oval, 1 .2-1.5mm long. 0.5mm broad, subacute, nicrnbranous with a greenkeel stamens 3, distinct, free, oppos!te perianth segments, filaments 1-1.2mm long,anthers 0.5mm long, staminodes absent; ovary superior, 0.5mm taIl, ovate, glabrous,1-locular with a single erect basal ovule, styles 2 or 3 short fruit 1.5mm long,compressed, rugose, glabrous, indehiscent with a inembranous pericarp enclosed inpersistent perianth leaves seed blackish. lenticultr 1mm across, glabrous andshining.Flowers from October to Deceiibcr. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Alexiteric, diuretic, anti pyretic, constipation, leprosy, bronchitis, piles, leaucorrhoea(Bangladesh)
Haemostatic, inflammation, boils, liver congestion, haemorrhoids, gonorrhea, diuretic,boils, haematuria, demulcent, galactagogue, uterine troubles, snake bite, centipedebites, cholagogus (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Remarks
Amaranthus viridis (IPNI)

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