Family: Amaranthaceae
Synonym: Xeraea celosioides (Mart.) Kuntze
Vernacular
name: Nirvadamalli, Neervadamalli (Malayalam)
Habit:
Herb
Habitat:
Scrub jungles and waste places
Flowering
& Fruiting: Throughout the year
Distribution:
Warmer regions of the world
Key identification features:
Prostrate herbs, branchlets woolly. Leaves elliptic, obovate, mucronate,
spathulate, woolly beneath. Spikes terminal and sometimes axillary; tepals 5,
lanceolate, acute at apex, woolly at the back of the inner 3 tepals; stamens 5,
ovary 1-ovuled
Uses: Treatment of urinary tract disorders
and kidney stones, gastrointestinal and respiratory diseases, rheumatism,
infections and as a natural analgesic
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