| Spiked Gomphostemma |
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| Original date | 8/29/14 4:27 PM |
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| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/160s |
| Aperture | 9.0 |
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| Camera make | NIKON CORPORATION |
| Camera model | NIKON D5100 |
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Botanical name: Gomphostemma heyneanum Family: Lamiaceae (Mint family)
Spiked Gomphostemma is a subshrub with stem
obtusely 4-angular, densely covered with starry hairs. It is named for
Dr B Heyne, German botanist and traveller. Leaves are 25 x 15 cm,
broadly elliptic, pointed at both ends, thickly hairy below, sparsely
hairy above, toothed, nerves 5-7 pairs. Leaf-stalks are 4-6 cm long.
Flowers are borne in racemes 18 x 2.5 cm. Flowers are 10 to 20
together, densely packed, bracts elliptic, pointed. Calyx is 1.2 cm
long, lobed to the middle, lobes lanceshaped. Flowers are 1.5 cm long,
tube 7 mm broad, cylindric, midlobe of lower lip blunt, notched,
filaments unequal, hairless. Nutlets are smooth. Spiked Gomphostemma
is endemic to Southern Western Ghats.
Medicinal uses:
Spiked Gomphostemma is used
to prepare medicine for rheumatism, dysentery and diarrohea by the
kurichia, kuruma and kattunaika tribes of Kerala,
Medicinal uses:
Spiked Gomphostemma is used
to prepare medicine for rheumatism, dysentery and diarrohea by the
kurichia, kuruma and kattunaika tribes of Kerala, | Identification credit: Vinaya Raj | Photographed at Abbey Falls, Coorg, Karnataka. |
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