Thursday, June 27, 2024

Flueggea virosa (Roxb. ex Willd.) Royle

 

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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