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Evolvulus alsinoides

Scientific Name
Evolvulus alsinoides
Family Name
Convolvulaceae
Common Names
Local Names
Sankhapushpi (India), Wishnukranthi (Sri Lanka)
Description
A prostrate annual herb with spreading, silky hairy branches arising from a woodyrootstock. Leaves alternate, subsessile, broadly ovate, elliptic-lanceolate, acute torounded at both ends, hairy on both sides, margins entire. Flowers blue or white,campanulate, borne 1-3 together on axillary peduncles. Fruits a globose 4-valvedcapsule with 4-seeds. Seeds pale brown to black, ovoid. (India)
A perennial herb with a small, woody, branched rootstock and numerous, prostrate,spreading slender, wiry stems usually with long spreading hair; leaves simple,alternate, exstipulate, 0.6-1.5cm long, 5-8mm broad, nearly sessile, oblong-oval,usually acute at base, very obtuse but apiculate at apex, densely covered with hair onboth sides; flowers regular, bisexual 7.5mm across, bright blue on short filiformnedicels, solitary or 2, bracts small iinear-ianceoiate, persistent, peduncle 9mm long,filiform, hairy, usually longer than leaves; sepals 5, equal, 3.5mm long, lanceolate,acute, very hairy; petals 5, fused into a nearly rotate corolia about 9mm in diameter,lobes obscure; stamens 5, exserted; ovary superior, 2-locular with two ovules in eachloculus, styles 2, each deeply bifid, stigmas linear; fruit capsule about 2.5mm across,globose, 4-valved, 4-seeded with persistent calyx; seeds brown, glabrous.Flowers allthe year round. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Dysentery, nervous debility, uterine bleeding, scrofula, fever, syphilis, ulcers, asthma,bronchitis, gastric disorders (India)
Asthma, fever, syphilis, nervous debility, bronchitis, dysentery, scrofula, vermifuge,bowel complaints, alteratives, hair growth, febrifuge, loss of memory (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Bibila, Kanneliya, Meegahak, Pinna, Ganewatta
Remarks
Evolvulus alsinoides (GRIN)

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