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Emilia sonchifolia

Scientific Name
Emilia sonchifolia
Family Name
Compositae
Common Names
Local Names
Sadimodi, mechitra, sadusi. (Bangladesh), Kadu pahara (Sri Lanka)
Description
A perennial herb with prostrate or decumbent stems, becoming erect at the ends,much branched, glabrous and often rooting; leaves simple, alternate, sessile, 3.7 10cmlong, 2.5 4. 5cm broad, somewhat lyrate on the barren shoots, with the upper halfovate and the lower narrOwer and oblong, on the flowering branches, oblong orlanceolate-oblong, sat.zittatc with acute auricles at the base, hairy on both sides, ratherthick, glaucous beneath; flowers regular, bisexual, bright pinkish-violet, slightly bent,all tubular, sessile on heads which are few and nodding when young, about 1 .2cmwide, involucre about 0.6cm long, nearly glabrous, bracts 8 in one row, connate nearthe top, flowers much exceeding involucre, outer ones spreadmg; sepals reduced tobristles; petals 5, fused, corolla-tube 8mm long, segments 5, oblong, 2 5mm long;stamens 5, on the corolla-tube, filaments free, anthers fused into a tube round the style,anther bases obtuse; ovary inferior, 1mm long, 2-carpellary, unitocular with a singlebasal ovule, style-arms tipped with tufts of hair; fruit an oblong brown achene, about2.5mm long with 5 rows of white bristles on the ribs and copious white pappus.Flowers all the year round. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Inflammation, blindness, sore throat, diarrhoea (Bangladesh)
Night blindness, anti asthmatic, bowel complaints, fever, styptic, diarrhoea, sorethroat, anti haemorrhagic, eye inflammations, ulcers, cough, escharotic, phthisis,astringent, anti pyretic (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Ganewatta
Remarks
Emilia sonchifolia (GRIN)

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