| Tamilnadu Pipevine |
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| File size | 795447 |
| Original date | 2/1/18 8:14 PM |
| Resolution | 3648 x 5472 |
| Flash | Flash fired |
| Focal length | 60.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/200s |
| Aperture | 6.3 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | Canon |
| Camera model | Canon EOS 70D |
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Botanical name: Aristolochia krisagathra Family: Aristolochiaceae (Birthwort family)
Tamilnadu Pipevine is a twining herbs with branches
angular. Leaves are 7-16 x 2.5-5 cm, oblong-lanceshaped, long tapering
at tip, flat to somewhat heart-shaped at base, 5-ribbed. Flowers are
borne in few-flowered monochasial racemes, with minute bracts. Flower
tube is 2-2.5 cm long, with bulbous base 5-6 mm across; limb brown,
oblique, 1-lipped, 2-2.5 cm long, 0.6-1 cm wide, ovate; margins
reflexed. Gynostemium is included in the bulbous portion. Style column
is 6-lobed. Capsules are 1.5-2 x 1-1.5 cm, ovoid, drooping, 6-ridged
and valved, splitting at upper part and hanging like a basket. Seeds
are triangular, about 3 mm across. Tamilnadu Pipevine is found in South
Western Ghats. Flowering: September-January.
Medicinal uses:
The juice of leaves and
rhizome of Tamilnadu Pipevine is used in combination with other plants
for the treatment of snakebite by the Kani tribes.
Medicinal uses:
The juice of leaves and
rhizome of Tamilnadu Pipevine is used in combination with other plants
for the treatment of snakebite by the Kani tribes. | Identification credit: C. Rajasekar | Photographed in Mundanthurai - Kodamadi, KMTR, Tamil Nadu. |
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