Family: Commelinaceae
Vernacular
name: Kulamarinji, Thookuchethi (Malayalam)
Habit:
Herb
Habitat:
Wastelands
Distribution:
Pantropical
Flowering and Fruiting: July-September
Key identification features:
Trailing or diffuse herbs. Leaves lanceolate or oblong-lanceolate, base obtuse,
apex acute or acuminate; Petals blue, Capsule oblong, 3-celled, apex beaked.
Seeds tuberculate and reticulate.
Uses:
Heal
swelling, treatment of urinary tract infection and respiratory tract
infections, diarrhea, enteritis, and hemorrhoids
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