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Lasia spinosa

Scientific Name
Lasia spinosa
Family Name
Araceae
Common Names
Local Names
Kantakachu. (Bangladesh), Kohila (Sri Lanka)
Description
A stout, spiny, marshy plant with a creeping, spiny rootstock 2-3cm diameter; leavessimple, long-petioled. l5-45cm long, 5-32cm broad, rigidly coriaceous, young leaveshastate or sagittate. old ones pinnatifid with lanceolate acuminate segments, glabrousabove. costate, strongly penniveined and spinous beneath; petioles 24-70cm long,terete, spiny. bases sheathing; spathe 20-35cm long, spirally twisted above the spadixand about 1.3cm in diameter, yellowish-brown with yellow margin, open at base onlywhen pollen is discharged and closing afterwards; spadix 3cm long, 0.9cm diameter,cylindrical, blunt at apex, orange red in colour, densely clothed in bisexual, sessileflowers; perianth segments 4 or 5, each 2mm tong, 1.5mm broad, concave, dorsallyhooded and dull pink; stamens 4 or 5, filaments very broad, 1 .5mm long, 1mm broad,opposite and appressed on perianth segments, anther cells oblong, divaricate below;ovary superior, short, columnar, 1.7mm long, 1.5mm broad, green, I-Jocular with asolitary ovule pendulous from the top, stigma large sessile; fruit not seen.Frequentlycultivated in marshy areas in the villages for the sake of its young leaves andrhizomes. It is in flower from October to December. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Colic, rheumatism, intestinal diseases, throat, affections, piles (Bangladesh)
Tooth powder, wounds, ulcerations, sores, body pains, bronchitis, sprains, tooth ache,elephantiasis, eruptions, boils (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Meegahak, Pinna
Remarks
Lasia spinosa (GRIN)

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