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Barleria prionitis

Scientific Name
Barleria prionitis
Family Name
Acanthaceae
Common Names
Local Names
Katsareya (India), Jarong kembang (Indonesia), Katu karandu (Sri Lanka)
Description
A much branched, prickly shrub, up to 3cm tall. Leaves simple, opposite, elliptic,acuminate, lanceolate, bristle-tipped, entire, glabrous above, young leaves oftenpubescent beneath. Flowers orange-yellow or cream-coloured, sessile, in axillary.Fruits ovoid, tapering beaked, 2-seeded. Seed compressed, ovate, clothed with silkyappressed hairs. (India)
A liana up to 16m long, root-reddish-brown, apical shoots often leafless for severaland rusty pubescent; leaflets 7-15, mostly densely rusty hairy on both surfaces whenyoung; inflorescence axillary or fascicled on older branches; flowers with rustypubescent calyx and pinkish corolla, standard with basal callosities, rusty silky hairy;fruit oblong or oblong-elliptical, with a narrow wing along both sides. D. elliptica iscommonly found in forest edges, roadsides and along rivers, in Java up to 1500maltitude. (Indonesia)
A small shrub, 0.6-1.4m tall, much branched, branches cylindrical, swollen abovenodes labroUs with sle er, very sharp spines in leaf axils, each with 3-5 divaricatebranches leaves simple. 0 ite, passing into bracts above, 5-13.5cm long, 1.56.5cmbroad, ovate, tapering be acute, mucronate, glabrous above, slightly pubescent onveins beneath with 2-6 pairs of arching lateral veins, prominent beneath; flowerszygomorphic, bisexual, rather farce. 2.5-3cm across, orange, solitary, opposite, sessilebecoming spicate above; bractlets 2, opposite, linear, 0.6-1cm long, mucronate, stiff,almost spinous and spreading; sepals 4, in pairs. outer pair much larger. ovate, 1.2cmlong, 4.5-5mm broad, acuminate-mucronate, inner pair linear-laticeolate, aristate,1.2cm long, 2mm broad, glandular on both sides and hairy outside petals 5, fused intoa cylindrical tubular corolla-tube 1.5cm long, hairy outside, corolla lobes stronglyimbricate, recurved, 3 outer lobes oval, 1.5cm long, 0.9-1cm broad, hairy outside, 2inner lobes smaller, oblong, 1.3cm long. 0.7cm broad, obtuse; stamens 4 epipetalouS,two reduced to staminodes, the fertile stamens exserted, filaments 2.5cm long andhairy, anther 2-celled, not spurred; ovary superior, 3mm long, glabrous, 2-locular with2 ovules jfl each loculus, style 3.3cm long, stigma slightly bifid; fruit capsule 1.4cmlong, ovoid with a long, tapeiing. solid beak; seeds 2 with silky adpressedhair.Flowers in March, August and October. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Neuralgia, ulcers, glandular swellings, anthralgia, rheumatism, poisonous affections,itch, leprosy, antiseptic, phlegm, bleeding gums, paralytic affections, stomachdisorders, facial pimples, whooping cough (India)
Diuretic, tonic, fever, rheumatism, liver ailments, indigestion, constipation, jaundice,urinary infections, boils (Indonesia)
Anti rheumatic, bleeding gums, boils, catarrh, cholagogus, cough, diuretic (SriLanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Indonesia - Manoko
Sri Lanka - Naula, Bibila, Kanneliya, Meegahak, Pinna, Pattipola, Giradurukotte
Remarks
Barleria prionitis (GRIN)

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