Family:
Euphorbiaceae
Synonym: Securinega
virosa (Roxb. ex Willd.) Baill.
Vernacular
name: Perimklavu, Vellapoolam
Habit:
Shrub
Habitat:
Dry and moist deciduous forests and wastelands
Flowering
& Fruiting: March-December
Distribution:
Paleotropics
Key identification features:
Profusely branched dioecious shrubs. Leaves alternate, obovate, base cuneate,
apex obtuse, glaucous below, chartaceous; Flowers minute in axillary clusturs,
short-pedicelled. Male flowers numerous; tepals 5, ovate-concave, crenulate;
stamens 5, free; pistillodes 3. Female flowers tepals 5, ovate. Fruit white,
globose.
Uses:
Contraceptives
and for the treatment of syphilis, gonorrhoea, rheumatism, sterility, rashes,
and an infusion of the root is taken to relieve malaria
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