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Commelina diffusa

Scientific Name
Commelina diffusa
Family Name
Commelinaceae
Common Names
Local Names
Gira pala (Sri Lanka)
Description
Annual. nea gi.Liruo - su branching herb, rooting at the rather distant nodes, tipsascending, caves simrie, 3.7-7.5cm long, 1.2-1.6cm broad. sessile, lanceolate orovate-lanceolate, acute or acuminate, glabrous or puberulous, ciliate, sheath 1.2-2.5cm long, loose, glabrous; flowers irregular, bisexual, 1.2-1.6cm broad, shortlypedicelled, in simple or hifid scorpiod cyrnes, I to few-flowered, enclosed in a spathefrom which the flowers emerge singly; spathes 1.6-2.5cm long, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, acute, glabrous or pubescent, base cordate with rounded lobes; sepals 3,small, free or 2 connate; petals 3, the two iritenor, large-clawed, orbicular or cordateand dark blue in colour, the third smaller, subsessile and of a paler blue colouration;stamens 3. perfect, hypogynous, filaments slender, naked, anthers oblong, one largerthan the others; sta.rnmnodes 3, like stamens but deformed with cruciform anthers;ovary superior, 3-locular, 2 loculi each 2-ovuled and the third loculus 1-ovuled, styleslender, glabrous, stigma punctiform; capsule 5mm long, broadly oblong, acuminate,coriaceous, 5-seeded, hidden in the spathe by the decurvung of the pedicel afterflowering, loculicidally 3-valved with the dorsal valve indehiscent; seeds oblong,tubercled, reticulate and brown in colour.Flowers mostly during January. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Itch, sores, burns, boils, leucoderma, urinary, burning sensations, cold, ulcers,gonorrhea (Bangladesh)
Burns, eye lotion, itch, boils (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Pinna, Ganewatta
Remarks
Commelina diffusa (GRIN)

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