Family: Apiaceae
Synonym: Eryngium antihystericum Rottler.
Vernacular name: Long Coriander, Mexican coriander
Habit: Herb
Habitat: Cosmopilitian
Distribution: India, Indigenous to America, Introduced in Africa, Asia.
Flowering and Fruiting: August-December
Key identification features: Perennial aromatic herbs, tuberous roots, dichotomously branched stems. Simple leaves, oblanceolate-spathulate, spinous-toothed margin;. White flowers in oblong-cylindrical umbels. Ellipsoid fruit.
Uses: Leaves are eaten raw or cooked. Used for burns,
earache, fevers, hypertension, constipation, fits, asthma, stomachache, infertility
complications, snake bites.
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