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Nelumbo nucifera

Scientific Name
Nelumbo nucifera
Family Name
Nymphaeaceae
Common Names
Local Names
Kamal (India), Nelum (Sri Lanka), Sen, liên, ngậu (Vietnam)
Description
A large handsome aquatic herb with creeping, branched rhizomes. Leaves peltate,petioles very long, smooth or with small prickles, much raised above the watersurface. Flowers solitary, large, fragrant, white or rosy with a centrally located,yellow, obconical, spongy torus in white carpels are sunken. Fruits ovoid, nut-likeachenes. (India)
Perennial aquatic herb. Root-stock stout, cylindrical, embedded in the mud. Leavespeltate, radiately nerved; margins wavy; petiole long, aculeate, inserted in the middleof the leaf. Flowers large, solitary, handsome and fragrant, rosy or white. Carpelsnumerous, ovoid, fleshy, sunk separately in cavities of receptacle, maturing into nut-like achenes; skin hard and blackish-brown when ripe (Vietnam)
Uses
Agitation, hematemesis (China)
Leucoderma, smallpox, diarrhoea, dysentery, cough, burning sensations, fever,strangury, leprosy, diarrhoea, cholera, liver, piles, inflammation, menorrhagia (India)
Debility, cardiac tonics, cholera, cough, diarrhoea, dysentery, haemorrhage, leprosy(Sri Lanka)
Neurasthenia, spermatorrhoea, metrorrhagia, insomnia, uterine, haemorrhage,haematemesis (Vietnam)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Bibila, Meegahak, Pinna
Vietnam - Ha Noi
Remarks
Nelumbo nucifera (GRIN)

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