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Acalypha indica

Scientific Name
Acalypha indica
Family Name
Euphorbiaceae
Common Names
Indian acalypha
Local Names
Muktajhuri, swetbasanta (Bangladesh), Kuppikhokli (India), Kuppameniya(Sri Lanka)
Description
An erect, annual herb with numerous ascending branches. Leaves long petioled, ovateor rhombic-ovate, acute, cuneate at base, crenate-serrate, glabrous, thin. Male andfemale flowers in axillary spikes; male flowers minute, followed by a tuft of sterileflowers; female flowers scattered, 3-5 surrounded by many-nerved bracts. Fruits small,concealed by the bract. Seeds ovoid, smooth, pale brown. (India)
An annual herb, 30-75cm tall, erect; Branches numerous, long, ascending, angular,finely pubescent; leaves simple, alternate, 3.7-9cm long, 2.8-7cm broad, rhomboid-ovate, tapering at base, acute, serrate, glabrous, thin, somewhat 3-nerved at base, palegreen, finely pubescent on veins beneath; petioles usually longer than the leaf, 2-9.5cm long, slender, spreading, pubescent, stipules minute; flowers minute, green,unisexual, apetatous, monoecious, sessile or shortly pedicelled, in numerous, lax.erect, axillary spikes, each terminating in a swollen 2-fid apex bearing a seed; male flowers: very small, white, short-pedicel led in clusters towards the upper end of the spike; sepals 4. valvate. oviite, hairy, petals and disc absent; stamens 8 on a convex receptacle, filaments swollen and anthers branched; female flowers: solitary or in clusters of 2 or 3. scattered, each group with a large, leafy, truncate, dentate bract; sepals 3, ovate, hairy; petals absent; ovary superior, hispid, 3-locular with a single ovule in each loculus, styles 3. much divided into icveral long slender branches; fruit capsule small, concealed by the large bract. Consisting of three 2-valved, crustaceous cocci; seeds brown, glabrous, conical, about 1.4mm long. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Emetic, expectorant, bronchitis, asthma, pneumonia, scabies (Bangladesh)
Acrid, expectorant, purgative, emetic, gastro intestinal, skin diseases, constipation,ulcers, bronchitis, vitiated, otalgia (India)
Bedsores, laxative, ringworms, cathartic, asthma, constipation, emetic, urine retention,rheumatic, anti parasitic, bronchitis, escharotic (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Naula, Bibila, Kanneliya, Meegahak, Pinna
Remarks
Acalypha indica (GRIN)

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