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Melothria heterophylla

Scientific Name
Melothria heterophylla
Family Name
Cucurbitaceae
Common Names
Local Names
Description
Perennial,.tendril climber with very long, slender, glabrous stems, root withpendulous tubers, tendrils very long and young parts puberulous; leaves simple,alternate, very variable, 7.5-10cm long, usually triangular ovate with a cordato-hastatebase. lobes often overlapping but sometimes prolonged into oblong or even lineardivaricate lobes, acute, distantly denticulate, slightly rough with scales, bright greenabove, smooth and glaucous beneath, scabrous on margin; petioles l.2cm long,cylindrical, twisted; llowcrs regular, yellowish white, unisexual, dioecious, males onslender pedicels, numerous, crowded in a close, umbellate, pedunculate corymb muchshorter than the leaves, females solitary; sepals 5, fused into a campanulate calyx limb,segments minute; petals 5, very slightly connate at base, very short, triangular; male flowers: stamens 3, inserted low down in the calyx, anthers small,distinct, cells slightly curved; female flowers: ovary inferior, calyx-tube constricted above the ovary into a narrow neck, glabrous, 10-ribbed with 3 placentas, style stout, surrounded at base by a lobed disc and three erect staminodes, stigmas very large; fruit about 3.7cm long. oblong-ovoid, cylindrical, tapering to a point but not beaked, smooth and red in colour; seeds ovoid, scarcely compressed, smooth and white.Flowers from June to July (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Purgative, tooth ache, escharotic, strained back, sudorific, spermatorrhoea (SriLanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Remarks
Melothria heterophylla (GRIN)

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