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Published In: Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London 1(35): 367. 1848. (Proc. Linn. Soc. London) Name publication detailView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Flower/Fruit: Fl. Per.: February-November.
Type: Type: Herb. Linn. 487.1 (LINN).
Distribution: Distribution: Central and North West India and Pakistan to north and tropical Africa and Cape Verde Islands.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Common in sandy clay and saline or gravelly areas from sea level to 1000 m, in arid and semi-arid regions throughout Pakistan.

The growth of leaves and fruits is very much stunted in saline and rocky soils.

The plant is sold by herbalists and Ayurvedic doctors under the name Munderi. The leaves are used as an emollient and cooling agent. Mucilage is used for the treatment of gonorrhoea and applied as a poultice for healing wounds. Decoction of seeds and leaves with milk and sugar is a good tonic.

Map Location: B-6 Khyber Agency: Khyber pass, rare, Abdur Rehman Baig R/30(PFI-B); Peshawar, Hassan Din 12 (RAW); B-7 Hazara, Hassan Din 177 (RAW); C-6 Peshawar Dist.: Kachi Gari, 5 miles from Peshawar on way to Kabul, Sultanul Abedin 8534 (KUH); Jamrud, Khyber Agency, Hassan Din 26 (RAW); C-7 Jhelum Dist.: Ismail Abad Cement Factory, E. Nasir & M.A. Siddiqui 3632 (RAW); D-5 Loralai Dist.: Harnai, Mohinder Nath 2431 (RAW); D-6 Muzaffargarh Dist.: Leiah, Monsi 12 (RAW); D-8 Lahore Dist.: Sangla Hill, R.R. & LD. Stewart 1487 (RAW); F-4 Dadu Dist.: Near Shah Hasan, S.I. Ali & Sultanul Abedin 332; 333 (KUH); 8 miles from Sehwan on Sehwan-Hyderabad Road, S.A. Farooqi & Sultanul Abedin 439 (KUH); F-5 Nawab Shah Dist.: 8 miles from Sakrand on way to Nawab Shah, Sultanul Abedin 3970 (KUH); G-2 Makran Dist.: About 8 miles from Turbat on way to Awaran, S.I. Ali, S.A. Farooqi & Sultanul Abedin 1560 (KUH); G-3 Las Bella Dist.: 32 miles from Las Bella on way to Uthal, Sultanul Abedin & Abrar Hussain 7300 (KUH) ; G-4 Karachi Dist.: About 21 miles from Karachi on way to Bella, Sultanul Abedin 3744; 3745 (KUH); Darsano Chano, Malir, Sultanul Abedin & Abdul Ghafoor 1395 (KUH); Clifton, A. Rehman 25089 a (RAW); Karachi, Imtiaz 69 (RAW); Layari, sandy wet saline ground, S.M.H. Jafri 809 (KUH); Kala Chapra, Drigh Road, 27.1.1957, S.A. Alvi s.n. (KUH); Karachi University Campus, Shafia Bano s.n. (KUH); Mango Pir, Karachi, Mohammad Saleem 35 (RAW); G-5 Hyderabad Dist.: c. 1 mile before Daulat Pur on Hyderabad-Daulat Pur Road, S.A. Farooqi & Sultanul Abedin 486 (KUH); G-6 Thar Parker Dist.: Near Rest House at Nagar Parker, Sandy hillocks, Mohammad Qaiser & Abdul Ghafoor 3951 (KUH).

 

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A mat-forming, prostrate, much branched woody perennial. Stem diffusely branched from woody rootstock, young branches sparsely hairy, older ones glabrous. Leaves 3-costate, elliptic to broadly elliptic, 4-18 (-20) mm long, 2-9 (-10) mm broad, glabrous except the scattered hairy costae, plicate in bud, crenate-serrate, without basal setose appendages, obtuse; petiole 1.5-2.5 cm long, filiform, minutely hairy; stipules linear-falcate, c. 2 mm long. Cyme mostly 2(-1)-flowered, antiphyllous, peduncle minute. Flowers yellow, 6-8 mm across, pedicel c. 1 mm long; bracts linear-lanceolate, c. 1.5 mm long. Sepals yellowish-green, linear-oblong, 3-4 mm long, spreading, acute. Petals obovate-spathulate, as long as sepals, obtuse. Stamens 8-10, filaments c. 4 mm long, erect. Carpels 4; ovary c. 1 mm long, oblong-cylindric, 4-loculed; style equalling the ovary, stigma 4-lobed. Capsule oblong-cylindric, straight or curved, glabrescent, 7-22 mm long, with c. 1.5-2 mm long beak, 4-loculed, locules transversely septate. Seeds blackish-grey, c. 1.5 mm long, roughly triangular, obliquely truncate.
 
 
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