Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Shrub
Distribution notes: Exotic
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Acistoma coccineum Zipp. ex Span. |
| synonym | Grislea micropetala Hochst. & Steud. |
| synonym | Grislea punctata Buch.-Ham. ex Sm. |
| synonym | Grislea tomentosa Roxb. |
| synonym | Lythrum fruticosum L. |
| synonym | Lythrum hunteri DC. |
| synonym | Lythrum punctatum Span. |
| synonym | Woodfordia floribunda Salisb. |
| synonym | Woodfordia tomentosa (Roxb.) Bedd. |
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📚 Overview
Description
Deciduous shrubs to 3 m tall with spreading stems. Leaves subsessile, 4-11 x 2-4 cm, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, subcoriaceous, whitish velvety tomentose and finely orangish- or black-punctate beneath. Flowers crimson, slightly zygomorphic, in 2-16-flowered axillary cymes; pedicels to 1 cm long. Calyx tube 1-1.5 cm long, tubular; lobes 6, short, more or less triangular, alternating with small callous appendages. Petals 6, red, 3-4 mm long, lanceolate-acuminate. Stamens 12, inserted near the bottom of the calyx tube, 0.5-1.5 cm long. Ovary 4-6 mm long, oblong, 2-celled; ovules many; style 0.7-1.5 cm long. Capsule 0.6-1 x 0.25-0.4 cm, ellipsoid, included in the calyx. Seeds numerous, trigonous-ovoid.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Habitat
Terrestrial
Cultivated as medicinal plants
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Description
Global Distribution
Paleotropics
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Kozhikkode, Alappuzha, Kollam, Thiruvananthapuram, Wayanad, Ernakulam, Thrissur, Kannur, Malappuram, Palakkad
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Global Distribution
India: Assam, Bihar, Maharastra, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha
Local Distribution
Bongaigaon, Kamrup, Goalpara
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
Siddha
Unani
Traditional chinese medicine
Sowa-Rigpa
Medicinal
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Sowa-Rigpa, Unani, Siddha, Traditional chinese medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=2234
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=2234 |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Woodfordia floribunda Salisb., Parad. Lond. t. 42. 1806; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 572. 1879.
- Woodfordia fruticosa (L.) Kurz, J. Asiat. Soc. 40: 56. 1871; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 511(361). 1919; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 115. 1982; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 203. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 144. 1995; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 307. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 383. 2009.
- Lythrum fruticosum L., Syst. (ed. 10) 1045. 1759.
- 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=2234
Information Listing > References
- Woodfordia floribunda Salisb., Parad. Lond. t. 42. 1806; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 2: 572. 1879.
- Woodfordia fruticosa (L.) Kurz, J. Asiat. Soc. 40: 56. 1871; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 511(361). 1919; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 115. 1982; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 203. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 144. 1995; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 307. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 383. 2009.
- Lythrum fruticosum L., Syst. (ed. 10) 1045. 1759.
- 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=2234
Floristic enumeration of Torna Fort (Western Ghats, India): a storehouse of endemic plants
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Journal of Threatened TaxaFoliicolous fungi on medicinal plants in Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala, India
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Journal of Threatened TaxaSTUDY OF DIVERSITY OF ETHNOBOTANICAL PLANTS USED BY THE MISHING TRIBES OF GOLAGHAT DISTRICT, ASSAM AND THEIR CONSERVATION
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Mayur BawriNo Data
🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Myrtales |
| Family | Lythraceae |
| Genus | Woodfordia |
| Species | Woodfordia fruticosa (L.) Kurz |
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