Family: Fabaceae
Synonym: Amerimnon horridum Dennst.
Vernacular name: Aanamullu, Jadavalli
Habit: Climber
Habitat: Semi-evergreen and moist deciduous forests, also in the sacred groves and plains
Distribution: Southern Western Ghats
Flowering and Fruiting: September-January
Key identification features: Straggling shrubs, climbing by means of hooked branchlets. Leaves ovate-oblong or elliptic-oblong. Flowers in axillary cymose panicles. Pods broadly oblong or strap-shaped, 1-4-seeded.
Uses:
Bark is made into paste and applied externally in curing acne vulgaris,
hypothermia, and spasm.
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