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Aerva lanata

Scientific Name
Aerva lanata
Family Name
Amaranthaceae
Common Names
Local Names
Gorakhganja (India), Tabang ahas, apugapugan, pamaynap (Philippines),Polpala (Sri Lanka)
Description
An erect or prostrate, many branched herb, woolly, tomentose. Leaves simple,alternate, short-petioled, densely tomentose, usually smaller in the flowering branches.Flowers very small, sessile, bisexual, greenish or hoary-white, often clustered inspikes; perianth calycine, membranous. Fruits greenish, roundish, compressed utricle.Seeds kidney shaped with shining back. Coriaceous testa. (India)
A perennial erect herb 110cm tall, main branches and upper part of the stem oftenunbranched, leafy and flowering almost throughout, internodes usually shorter than2cm; leaves alternate, ovate-elliptical to obovate; spikes up to 2.5cm long.(Philippines)
Annual herb, 60-75cm tall, often woody at base; stems green, erect or prostrate, withnumerous, slender, cylindrical, more or less cottony, hairy branches leaves simple,alternate, 1.2-IScm long, 0.9-2.5cm broad, oval or spathulate-oval, tapering to baserounded or subacute at apex, entire, finally hairy pubescent above, whitish hairycottony beneath petiole O.4-lcm long, hairy; flowers greenish white, very small,regular, bisexual, sessile in dense, axillary heads or spikes, bracts shorter than sepals,1mm long, 0.5mm broad, ovate, apiculate, membranous, hairy outside; perianth 5lobes, oblong to oblong-ovate, 1.2-1.5mm long, apiculate, densely cottony, woollyoutside with membranous margins; stamens 5, connate at base with 5 interposedstaminodes forming a cup round the ovary; ovary superior, 1-locular with a solitaryovule pendulous from a basal funicle, style and bifid stigmas very short; fruitindehiscent, somewhat flattish, 0.8mm long. 0.6mm broad, ovate with a membranouspericarp, enclosed in persistent cottony perianth segments; seeds only one to a fruitand black in colour.Flowers almost throughout the year. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Emollient, vermifuge, suppurative, lithontriptic, boils, cephalalgia, cough, strangury(India)
Catarrh, gonorrhea (Philippines)
Diuretic, lithiasis, cough, headache (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Naula, Bibila, Kanneliya, Meegahak, Pattipola, Ganewatta
Remarks
Aerva lanata (GRIN)

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