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Pittonia 4(20E): 46. 1899. ( Pittonia)   
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(Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
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Acceptance
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Accepted
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(Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
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Flower/Fruit
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Fl. Per. Throughout the year.
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Type
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Type: Habitat in Virginia.
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Distribution
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Distribution: Throughout tropical and subtropical regions.
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Comment/Acknowledgements
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Common in wet places almost throughout Pakistan plains, often in gregarious patches. Leaves and young shoots are sometimes used in curing indigestion in children; its decoction is considered as cooling agent and used as a demulcent in cases of venereal diseases.
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Map Location
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C-6 Peshawar Dist.: Forest Inst. Campus, soil clay loam, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 1651 (KUH); Warsak Dam, Nasir & Siddiqui 1507 (RAW); C-7 Sargodha Dist.: Sakesar, Narwali village, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 4483 (KUH); Baghanwala, Salt range, along water channel, M.A. Siddiqui 3667 (RAW); Jinnah garden, Sargodha, Sultanul Abedin s.n. (KUH); Rawalpindi Dist.: Topi park, Rawalpindi, M..Nath 183 (RAW); Campbellpur Dist.: Wah gardens, M. Qaiser 288 (KUH) ; D-5 Zhob Dist.: c. 1 mile from Fort Sandeman, near a small water channel, M. Qaiser 183 (KUH); D-6 Dera Ghazi Khan Dist.: Miram, Y. Nasir 4653 (RAW) ; c. 15 miles from Kirgri on way to D.G. Khan, M. Qaiser 2540 (KUH) ; D-7 Sheikhupura Dist.: 54 miles from Lahore on way to Sargodha, S.A. Faruqi 2177 (KUH); D-8 Lahore Dist.: Niazbeg, Lahore, Sultanul Abedin 2430 (KUH); near Ravi, G.T. Road, Lahore, S. Abedin 7580 (KUH); E-6 D.G. Khan Dist., Canal Rest House, Rajanpur, along irrigation canal, S. Abedin & Abrar 9576 (KUH) ; F-3 Makran Dist.: Panjgur, near cult. field, Sultanul Abedin 2068 (KUH) ; F-4 Kalat Dist.: Hasanabad, Khuzdar-Kalat Rd., near water channel, M. Qaiser 1216 (KUH); F-5 Nawabshah Dist.: 5 miles from Sakrand on way to Sukkur, Sultanul Abedin & Abrar Hussain 9454 (KUH); G-2 Makran Dist.: Gwader, near pond, Sultanul Abedin & Abrar Hussain 6409 (KUH) ; 58 miles from Pasni on way to Turbat, Sultanul Abedin & Abrar Hussain 6497 (KUH) ; G-3 Hushab, cult. field, M. Qaiser, Asad Raza & Abrar Hussain 857 (KUH); G-4 Karachi Dist.: Malir, near water, S.M.H. Jafri 840 (HJ); Memongoth, along water channel, common, 4.4.56, S.M.H. Jafri 1280 (HJ); Darsano Chano, common in moist places, Sultanul Abedin. 16 (KIM); Thatta Dist.: 45 miles from Karachi on way to Hyderabad, saline soil, Sultanul Abedin 3540 (KUH); Kalri lake, Sultanul Abedin 3559 (KUH); Bed of river Ochta, S.I. Ali, Sultanul Abedin & A. Ghafoor 4111 (KUH) ; c. 7 miles from Dhabeji on way to Thatta, M. Qaiser, Saida & Asad Raza 462 (KUH); G-5 Hyderabad Dist.: between Tandojam and Tando Allahyar, A. Ghafoor & M. Qaiser 466 (KUH); Badin, opposite railway station, 24.8.68, M. Maqsood s.n. (KUH); Dadu Dist.: 1 mile from Jamshoro on way to Hyderabad, along Super Highway, M. Qaiser, Asad Raza & Abrar Hussain 618 (KUH); G-6 Tharparkar Dist.: Nagarparkar, dry stream bed, S.I. Ali 1512 (KUH); S.I. Ali, S.A. Faruqi & Sultanul Abedin 4477 (KUH).
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Perennial, prostrate herb with somewhat woody rootstock, rooting at nodes, appressedly pubescent to glabrescent. Leaves oblanceolate, obovate to spathulate, somewhat fleshy, 5-40 mm long, 4-20 mm broad, serrate above, entire below, glabrous to appressedly pubescent, subsessile to sessile, obtuse, rarely subacute. Spikes 1-4.5 cm long, 6-8 mm broad, solitary, axillary, peduncled, appressedly pubescent to glabrous. Flowers very small, white, rarely pinkish, c. 3 mm long; bracts c . 2 mm long, mucronate or acuminate, imbricate. Calyx flattened, shorter than bracts, hyaline-membranous, deeply dissected with lanceolate lobes, pubescent. Corolla slightly exceeding the bracts, unequally 4-lobed with spreading lobes. Fruit ovate, c. 1.6 mm long, subcompressed, enclosed by the persistent calyx, separating at maturity into two, 1-seeded pyrenes.
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