Habit: Herb
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Aerva persica (Burm. f.) Merr. |
| synonym | Aerva tomentosa Forssk. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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Habit: A small tomentose subshrub, upto 1m.
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
Flower
In terminal paniculate spikes; white. Flowering from December-February.
Fruit
A thin-walled urticle, irregularly rupturing; seed lenticular to reniform. Fruiting January onwards.
Field tips
Branchlets velvety to woolly.
Leaf Arrangement
Alternate distichous
Leaf Type
Simple
Leaf Shape
Oblanceolate-spathulate
Leaf Apex
Obtusely apiculate
Leaf Base
Cuneate-attenuate
Leaf Margin
Entire
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Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Along rivers, field edges & open areas
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
Description
Maharashtra: Ahmednagar, Pune, Raigad, Satara
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
| Contributors | |
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Found in poor, gravelly soil, scrub jungles and fallows from plains to 400m. Common. Drier parts of the tropics and subtropics of the old world.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Siddha
The plant is used in many medicinal applications. The flowers and seeds are externally applied as paste for skin diseases. The seeds are used for stuffing pillows, use of which is believed to cure rheumatism and headaches.
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System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Siddha
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=64
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📚 Information Listing
References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=64
Information Listing > References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=64
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
| Order | Caryophyllales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl |
| Family | Amaranthaceae |
| Genus | Aerva |
| Species | Aerva javanica (Burm.f.) A.L.Juss. ex Schultes |
📊 Temporal Distribution
📷 Related Observations
