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Gymnema sylvestre

Scientific Name
Gymnema sylvestre
Family Name
Asclepiadaceae
Common Names
Australian cow plant
Local Names
Madhunasini (India), Masbedda (Sri Lanka)
Description
Perennial, tomentose, woody climbers. Leaves opposite, shortly petioled, ovate-acuminate, cordate-base, densely tomentose, dark green above. Flowers greenish-yellow, in lateral short-peduncled, axillary, umbellate-cyme. Follicles solitary or 2,acuminate, tomentose, gradually tapering form base to tip. Seeds ovate-oblong, white,hairy at the apex. (India)
A large, woody. much-brandied, twining perennial, climbing over the tops of hightrees young stems and branches cylindrical, slender, softly and shortly hairy leavessimple, opposite, rather small, 3-5cm long. 1.3 3.4cm broad, ovate, rounded at base,shortly acuminate, more or less pubescent on both sides, especially on veins beneath,petioles 0.6cm long and hairy; flowers small, regular, bisexual, on rather long, slender,hairy pedicels grouped in nearly sessile cyines, peduncle densely pubescent shorterthan petioles arising from between them; bracts minute. hairy ciliate; sepals 5. almostseparate, hairy petals 5, fused into an urceolate yellow corolla about 4mm in diameter, lobes about as long as the tube, acute, recurved. slightly contorted, glabrous : corona of 5 processes inserted on the corolla-tube, alternate with its lobes. fleshy, blunt, produced downwards as double ridges in the tube; column small stamens 5. connate. anthers with membranous tips. pollen masses one in each chamber, erect. pedicellat not compressed, no staminal corona : ovary superior, of two distinct carpels, stigma ovoid and prominent fruit-follicles small, 5.5-7cm long, one usually suppressed, slender, tapering, smooth, terete; seeds comose. Flowers from November to February and in June. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Jaundice, renal, vesical calculi, cough, asthma, bronchitis, fever, amenorrhea,leucoderma, snake bite, diabetes, anti diabetic (India)
Blood sugar, insulin substitute, pancrease, snake bite, eye disease, expectorant (SriLanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Meegahak, Pinna, Ganewatta
Remarks
Gymnema sylvestre (GRIN)

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