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Adhatoda vasica

Scientific Name
Adhatoda vasica
Family Name
Acanthaceae
Common Names
Coral wood tree
Local Names
Baragunci (India), Adatoda (Sri Lanka)
Description
A medium sized, unarmed deciduous tree with greyish brown and longitudinalfissured bark. Leaves bipinnate; the pinnae 3-6 pairs, opposite, leaflets many,alternate, ovate-oblong, obtuse, glabrous, unequal sided, bark green above. Flowerspale yellow, in short peduncled racemes. Fruits falcately curved, pointed, the valvesspirally twisted after dehiscence. Seeds shining, brilliant scarlet, globose. (India)
A shrub 1-2m tall with many, opposite, ascending branches; stem cylindrical,glabrous, young parts finely puberulous; leaves simple, large, opposite, decussate, 9-25cm long, 2.5-8.5cm broad, lanceolate, tapering at both ends, acuminate, subacute,very faintly crenate, glabrous, dark gr abo and paler beneath, lateral veins 4-13 pairs,parallel and reticulate, puberulous below, petioles 0.7-3.5cm long and hairy; flowersirregular, bisexual, large, white, in dense bracteolate spikes on long, stout, axillarypeduncles towards the ends of branches; peduncles 3.5-5cm long, grooved andpuberulous; brats oval, l.4-3.5cm long, 0.9-1.8cm broad, subacute, glabrous, erect andimbricated, bractiets I .2-l.5cm long. 0.3-0.5cm broad, oblong-lanceolate. acute;sepals 5, oblong-lanceolate, 0.7-0.9cm acute, slightly connate at base, finely woollypubescent on both surfaces; petals 5. fused into a 2-lipped corolla, pubescent outside,corolla-tube 1 .2cm long, lower part cylindrical, inflated above and compressed dorsiventrally, upper lip I .8cm long, 1 .2cm broad, oblong-oval, curved, obtuse, notched,veins reddish-purple at the hack, lower lip as long, 3-lobed deeply, the centre lobe thelargest and with reddish.purple veins inside; stamens 2, epipetalous; filaments 2.2cmlong, arched, hairy at base, anthers green, 2-celled, cells more or less distant atdifferent levels, lower ones pointed ovary superior. 3mm long, hairy, 2-locular with 2ovules in each loculus; style and stigma 2.5cm long, hairy towards the base andsomewhai bifid at apex; fruit capsule 1.8cm long, clavate, pubescent; seeds 4,glabrous. tubercular-verrucose. Flowers in October and December. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Aphrodisiac, colonorrhea, haematuria, ulcers, pharyngopathy, gout, hyperdipsia,vomiting, fever, giddiness, dysentery, haemorrhage (India)
Phthisis, pneumonia, wounds, cholagogus, cough, heart diseases, catarrh, diarrhoea,headache, colitis, biliousness, liver congestion, snake bite, bleeding nose, asthma,rheumatic, haemoptysis, typhoid, jaundice, swellings (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Haldummu, Pattipola, Giradurukotte
Remarks
Adhatoda vasica (GRIN)

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