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UKT: Nagathein references are given to check the Burmese-Myanmar names. * shows where there is no agreement in Burmese name but when the plant is identifiable from botanical name.
{hsing-lak-maung:kri:} ; {hsing-nha-maung:kri:} Heliotropium indicum L. 1-487
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KS-TMN 074
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Botanical name: Heliotroplum
indicum L. Sp. Pl. 130. 1753. Myanmar names: Sinlet-maung-gyi; Sinnha-maung-gyi English name: - Family: Boraginaceae
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Identification characters:
An annual herb, coarse, succulent; stems stout, cylindrical, with longitudinal
grooves, branches ascending, densely hirsute. Leaves alternate or subopposite,
simple; exstipulate; petioles obscurely winged; laminae ovate or ovate-oblong,
the bases rounded, then narrowed and decurrent into the petiole, the margins
crenulate, the tips subacute, unicostate, reticulate, the veins more conspicuous
on the lower side, the upper surfaces puberulent, the lower villous.
Inflorescences scorpioid cymes, spicate, terminal and unilateral on the
peduncle, leaf apposed; bracts lanceolate, persistent. Flowers ebracteolate,
sessile, bisexual, actinomorphic, pentamerous, hypogynous. Calyx synsepalous,
5-partite, the lobes linear-lanceolate. Corolla synpetalous, 5-lobed,
infundibuliform, the tubes tubular, the lobes orbicular, spreading, imbricate or
contorted in bud, naked at the throat, light mauve. Androecium polyandrous,
stamens 5, epipetalous, inserted, the filaments very short, alternate with the
corolla lobes, the anthers dithecous, ovoid, basifixed, introrse, dehiscence
longitudinal. Pistil 1, ovary ovoid, 2-carpelled, syncarpous, 2-loculed,
becoming 4-loculed at maturity due to false septation, the ovule 1 in each
locule, the placentation axile, at times seemingly basal, the style 1, terminal,
the stigma conoid-linear. Fruit a durpe, ovoid, 2-lobed, 4-ribbed, separating
into two, 2-seeded, 2-pointed pyrenes; seeds 4, ovoid, endosperm abundant.
Flowering period: April-June-October
Fruiting period: July-August-November
Distribution: A common weed on road-sides and stream-bed areas.
Parts used and uses: Leaf -- Astringent; Antipyretic for high fevers; Analgesic; Remedy for sores. Leaf juice -- Excessive lacrimation.
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