| Red Pergularia |
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| File size | 480349 |
| Original date | 6/22/06 2:36 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, auto |
| Focal length | 17.4mm |
| Exposure time | 1/120s |
| Aperture | 15.1 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX S6 |
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Botanical name: Marsdenia roylei Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Pergularia roylei
Synonyms: Pergularia roylei
Red Pergularia is a softly hairy climbing
shurb, juice milky, woody branches with raised warts. It has
heart-shaped leaves and orange flowers crowded into branched
flat-topped stalked clusters 2.5-4 cm across, in leaf axils. Flowers
are about 6 mm across with 5 fleshy spreading petals which are densely
hairy above except on the margins. Corona lobes are linear erect, much
longer than the anthers, with converging tips. Sepals and flower-stalls
have a dense felt of hairs. Leaves are stalked, 6-15 cm, pointed.
Seed-pods are hairy, deeply wrinkled, about 8 cm by 2.5-4 cm, beaked.
Red Pergularia is found in India, the Himalayas, from Pakistan to
Arunachal Pradesh and Myanmar, at altitudes of 900-2400 m.
Flowering: May-June.
Medicinal uses:
The juice of the stem is used in the treatment of gastric troubles and
peptic ulcers.
Medicinal uses:
The juice of the stem is used in the treatment of gastric troubles and
peptic ulcers. | Identification credit: Krishan Lal | Photographed in Sirmaur Distt, Himachal Pradesh. |
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