| Nerved-Leaf Swallow-Root |
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| Original date | 8/25/16 5:53 AM |
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| Focal length | 55.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/80s |
| Aperture | 5.6 |
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| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 700D |
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Botanical name: Decalepis nervosa Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Brachylepis nervosa Wight & Arn.
Synonyms: Brachylepis nervosa Wight & Arn.
Nerved-Leaf Swallow-Root is a climbing shrub, with
stem purplish, velvet-hairy; latex milky. Leaves are simple opposite,
5-10 x 3-7 cm, elliptic or elliptic-oblong, pointed to tapering, base
blunt, upper surface hairless and shining; lateral nerves 8-10 pairs,
prominent below, opurplish in young leaves; leaf-stalk to 1 cm long.
Flowers are borne in leaf-axils and at branch-ends, in condensed cymes.
Flower-cluster-stalk is velvet-hairy or becoming hairless. Calyx is
deeply lobed, sepals ovate, pointed. Flower are pinwheel shaped, petals
ovate greenish-purple; corona of 5 broad membranous scales. Stamens 5,
attached to the throat of flower; filaments short. Ovary hairless;
style tip capitate. Follicles narrowly lanceshaped, 6-7 cm long.
Nerved-Leaf Swallow-Root is endemic to Western Ghats
Flowering: September-April.
Medicinal uses:
Root is used as pickles,
indigestion and substitute of Nannari plant for health drink.
Medicinal uses:
Root is used as pickles,
indigestion and substitute of Nannari plant for health drink. | Identification credit: M. Saradha | Photographed in Nilgiri’s Biosphere Reserve, Tamil Nadu. |
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