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Zanonia indica

Scientific Name
Zanonia indica
Family Name
Cucurbitaceae
Common Names
Local Names
Wal rasakinda (Sri Lanka)
Description
Perennial. semi-woody, scandent, tendril climber with grey, glabrous stems; tendrilssimple, elongate, terete, glabrous; leaves simple, alternate, coriaceous, 7,5-15cm long,5-9.5cm broad, deciduous leaving prominent circular scars, broadly oval to lanceolate,rounded or cordate at base. somewhat acuminate, apiculate, quite entire, glabrous, rather thick, venation reticulate rather conspicuous beneath: petioles 2.7-3cm long; flowers regular, unisexual, dioecious, greenish yellow, rather small on short pedicels, male flowers in racemes or panicles 15-30cm long. branched chiefly at base with flowers in small clusters, pedicels articulated about the middle, 2-4mm long, bracteolate at base; sepals 3. valvate, fused into a calyx, segments rotundate, concave, glabrous; petals 5, connate below lo form a rotate corolla, imbricate, segments ovate, acuminate, obtuse with incurved apices; stamens 5, inserted on central disc distinct, filaments short, broad, spreading, anther 1-cclled, opening transversely; female flowers in 5-12-nowered racemes 10-30cm long; sepals broadly triangular, 4mm long; petals ovate-oblong, 6-8mm long; ovary inferior, narrowly turbinate, cylindrical, 1.2cm long. glabrous, styles rather long spreading, bifid; fruit capsule 2.5-3.7cm long, cylindrical, rounded at base, truncate at apex opening on summit by 3 valves.glabrous.pale yellowish brown: seeds few, compressed with wing as long as the fruit, very flat, glabrous, yellow, wing rounded at the ends. Flowers during June (Sri Lanka)
Uses
Cough, nervous diseases, asthma, cathartic, febrifuge (Sri Lanka)
Locations Where Plants Is Conserved
Remarks
Zanonia indica (IPNI)

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