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Cuscuta reflexa

Scientific Name
Cuscuta reflexa
Family Name
Convolvulaceae
Common Names
Dodder.
Local Names
Swarnalata. tarulata, algusilata. (Bangladesh), Amarvela (India), Cascuta (SriLanka)
Description
A leafless, twining parasite throwing profuse branches. Branches fleshy. Flowerssmall, white, pedicelled, and arranged in loose racemes or often in short clusters.Sepals ovate-oblong, corolla tubular, lobes minute, acute, externally reflexed. Fruitssmall, globose, depressed, 2-4 seeded embedded in mucilaginous pulp. (India)
A leafless, twining, parasitic annual with long branched, closely twining, succulentand brittle, glabrous, pale greenish yellow stems, sometimes dotted with red; leavesabsent; flowers regular, bisexual, small, white, scented, on short, glabrous, curvedpedicels, solitary or io umbellate clusters of 2-4. or in short racemes; bracts 1.5mmlong, ovate-oblong, obtuse, fleshy; sepals 5. free, 3mm long, broadly oval, obtuse,glabrous and fleshy; petals 5, fused into a more or less campanulate or urceolatecorolla, tube over 6mm long, lobes very short, triangular, acute; scales 5, almost at thebase of the corolla-tube, obovate-oblong, incurved, fimbriate, stamens 5, inserted inthe throat of the corolla-tube, filaments very short; ovary superior, 2-locular with twoovuics in each chamber, style solitary, short, stigmas 2, oblong; fruit capsule over 6mm long depressed-globose, apiculate, glabrous, dehiscent by a ring near the base: seeds usually 2, rather large, glabrous and dull black Flowers during December. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Purgative, anthelmintic, constipation, flatulence, liver, biliousness, affections,carminative, diaphoretic, tonic, fever, cough (Bangladesh)
Fever, anthelmintic, flatulence, diarrhoea, infusion, sores, itch, carminative, antifertility, anodyne (India)
Itch, biliousness, fever, anasarca, purgative, carminative (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Remarks
Cuscuta reflexa (GRIN)

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