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Boerhavia diffusa

Scientific Name
Boerhavia diffusa
Family Name
Nyctaginaceae
Common Names
Spreading hogweed, pigweed.
Local Names
Punarnava (Bangladesh), Punarnava (India)
Description
A very diffusely branched, pubescent or glabrous, prostrate herb. Leaves long-petioled, ovate, or oblong-cordate, entire or sinuate, usually whitish beneath. Flowersred, pink or white, borne in small umbels arranged in axillary and terminal panicles.Fruit ovate, oblong, five-ribbed pubescent, viscid, glandular. (India)
Uses
Diuretic, dropsy, jaundice, anaemia (Bangladesh)
Asthma, rheumatism, obesity, boils, ophthalmia, muscular pain, child birth, skineruptions, giddiness, piles, gonorrhea, cystitis, catarrhal affections (India)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Remarks
Boerhavia diffusa (GRIN)

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