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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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Medicinal.
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Description
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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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Description
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Herbs, perennial. Branches many, creeping, rooting at distal nodes,
minutely strigose. Leaves subsessile; leaf blade spatulate, 1-3 X
0.5-1.5 cm, papery, pubescent, base cuneate, margin distally sharply
serrate, veins inconspicuously 4-paired. Inflorescences cylindric
to ovate capitula, 1-2.5 cm; peduncle 1-7 cm. Corolla pinkish
purple or white, glabrous. Capsules ca. 1.5 mm in diam. 2n
= 36.
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Distribution
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Distribution: Throughout tropical and subtropical regions.
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Distribution
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Fujian, Guangdong, Guizhou, Hainan, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu,
Jiangxi, Sichuan, Taiwan, Xizang, Yunnan [tropics and subtropics
of both hemispheres].
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Flower/Fruit
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Fl. Per. Throughout the year.
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Habitat
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Common weed along streambanks and in grassy places; 300-2300
m.
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Synonym
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Verbena nodiflora Linnaeus, Sp. Pl. 1: 20. 1753; Lippia
nodiflora (Linnaeus) Michaux.
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Description
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Prostrate perennial with long trailing stems growing from a woody taproot. Leaves opposite, somewhat fleshy, obovate or spathulate, coarsely serrate in the apical half. Inflorescence in dense, many-flowered, ovoid spikes on long peduncles. Corolla pale mauve-pink to white, often yellowish in the throat.
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- Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T. and Ballings, P. (2002-2014). Phyla nodiflora (L.) Greene Flora of Zimbabwe website. Accessed 28 August 2014 at http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=148750
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Frequency
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Occasional
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Worldwide distribution
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Widespread in the tropics, subtropics and warm temperate regions; specifically frequent in tropical Africa
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Phyla nodiflora
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Phyla nodiflora, the frog fruit, sawtooth fogfruit, or turkey tangle, is a flowering plant in the family Verbenaceae, and is native to the area from northern South America to southern United States. It can be found in tropical areas around the globe, a naturalized species in many places. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
It is often grown as an ornamental plant for ground cover, and is often present in yards or disturbed areas as a lawn weed.
The inflorescence consists of a purple centre encircled by small white-to-pink flowers. The flower takes on a match-like look, which is why the plant is sometimes called matchweed. It is similar to the related species Phyla lanceolata, but differs in having much shorter leaves that are often blunt and much more rounded. Both species are common as weeds and in the ornamental environment.
Common names in India include bukkan (Hindi), ratolia, vakkan (Marathi), poduthalai (Tamil), neerthippali (Malayalam), vasir, and vasuka (Sanskrit). It is used medicinally to treat suppuration, common colds, and lithiasis.[2]
Synonyms
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Lippia canescens Kunth
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Lippia incasiomalo (Small) Tildsoan
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Lippia lickiflora (L.) Michx.
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Lippia nodiflora var. canescens (Kunth) Kuntze
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Lippia nodiflora var. reptans (Kunth) Kuntze
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Lippia nodiflora var. rosea (D. Don) Munz
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Lippia reptans Kunth
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Polyumn incisa Small
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Phyla nodiflora var. antillana Moldenke
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Phyla nodiflora var. canescens (Kunth) Moldenke
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Phyla nodiflora var. incisa (Small) Moldenke
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Phyla nodiflora var. longifolia Moldenke
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Phyla nodiflora var. repens (Spreng.) Moldenke
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Phyla nodiflora var. reptans (Kunth) Moldenke
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Phyla nodiflora var. rosea (D. Don) Moldenke
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Phyla nodiflora var. texensis Moldenke.
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Phyla nodiflora: Brief Summary
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Phyla nodiflora, the frog fruit, sawtooth fogfruit, or turkey tangle, is a flowering plant in the family Verbenaceae, and is native to the area from northern South America to southern United States. It can be found in tropical areas around the globe, a naturalized species in many places. This plant is cited in Flora Brasiliensis by Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martius.
It is often grown as an ornamental plant for ground cover, and is often present in yards or disturbed areas as a lawn weed.
The inflorescence consists of a purple centre encircled by small white-to-pink flowers. The flower takes on a match-like look, which is why the plant is sometimes called matchweed. It is similar to the related species Phyla lanceolata, but differs in having much shorter leaves that are often blunt and much more rounded. Both species are common as weeds and in the ornamental environment.
Common names in India include bukkan (Hindi), ratolia, vakkan (Marathi), poduthalai (Tamil), neerthippali (Malayalam), vasir, and vasuka (Sanskrit). It is used medicinally to treat suppuration, common colds, and lithiasis.
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