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Alocasia indica

Scientific Name
Alocasia indica
Family Name
Araceae
Common Names
Giant taro
Local Names
Mankachu (Bangladesh), Habarala (Sri Lanka)
Description
A robust herb with bright green, large, triangular-sagittate, slightly repand leaves withstrongly marked, whitish midrib and 6-8, strong, pale, secondary nerves; petioles aslong as orlonger than the leaves, round and tapering upwards; peduncles several, 10-20cm long spathes with rather slightly offensive smell, 20-30cm long, of a palegreenish-yellow inside and oat, tube oblong-ovoid 3.8-5cm long. spadix shorter thanthe spathe female inflorescence yellow, narrowly ovoid, about 2.5cm long fertile maleinflorescence white, 3.8-5cm long, ppendix conoid rugulose. 10-12.5cm long and 7.5-10mm broad; male flowers of densely packed anthers with immersed cells opening byterminal slits female flowers of crowded, g!obose, i-chambered ovaries with obovoidpistils and sessile, 3-4-lobed stigmas; berry red, 7.5-10mm diameter. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Cooling, laxative, diuretic, leprosy, anasarca, jaundice (Bangladesh)
Laxative, piles, anasarca, aphthae, diuretic, constipation (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Remarks
Alocasia indica (GRIN)

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