Family: Euphorbiaceae
Synonym: Claoxylon mercuriale (L.) Thwaites
Vernacular
name: Kunukku-thooki (Malayalam)
Habit:
Herb
Habitat:
Degraded moist deciduous forests, also forests plantations and plains
Flowering
& Fruiting: June-December
Distribution:
Tropical Africa, Arabia through India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar
Key identification features:
Annual herbs. Leaves alternate, ovate or ovate-lanceolate, base rounded,
serrate on margins, apex acute or shortly acuminate, puberulous, membranous.
Flowers in interrupted clusters, on axillary racemes. Bracts minute. Male
flowers minute, Female flowers; tepals 3, lanceolate, shortly connate; Capsule
glabrescent. Seeds globose, minutely arillate.
Uses:
Used
for inflammation, poor healing wounds, and sores
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