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Pothos scandens

Scientific Name
Pothos scandens
Family Name
Araceae
Common Names
Local Names
Vay sa noy (Laos), Poota wel (Sri Lanka)
Description
Parasite (Laos)
A perennial herb climbing by means of aerial roots stems green, 1cm diameter, terete,smooth, branched and leafy, clothing the trunks of trees like ivy, internodes 1.5-6.5cmlong leaves simple, alternate, distichous, 5-13cm long, 2-4.5cm broad, oblong or lanceolate, acute, acuminate or apiculate, bright green, rounded at base, petioles winged,2.5-7cm long, 0.9-1.5cm broad, veins inconspicuous with a midrib and two pairs oflateral veins almost parallel to the margin with parallel, intercostal, reticulate venulesflowers regular, bisexual embedded in a globular spadix with a cymbiform spathe;spathe 0.7-0.9cm long, brownish to reddish-green, peduncle 0.7-0.9cm long, glabrous,clothed at base with 5 or 6 imbricating reddish-green bracts spadix 0.8-1.1cm long,stalked, reddish or purple with a yellowish, globose head, inflorescence as long as orlonger than the stipe perianrh segments 6. free, valvate, 0.5mm long, 0.7mm broad,oblong-pandurate, narrowed at base with the tips curved inwards; stamens 6, oppositeperianth segments, filaments 1mm long, 0.5mm broad, anthers basifixed at apex, cellsdivaricate, slits extrorse ovary superior, somewhat hexagonal, 0.7mm long and asbroad, truncate, 3-locular with a single ovule in each loculus, stigma minute lobulate;fruits scarlet, oblong berries, 1.2-1.6cm long, only a few ripening. Flowers fromFebruary to April and September to October. (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Asthma, tonic (Laos)
Ulcerations, asthma, wounds, smallpox, snake bite, diuretic, cholagogus, diaphoretic,dropsy, malaria (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Sri Lanka - Ganewatta
Remarks
Pothos scandens (GRIN)

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