Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Herb
Distribution notes: Exotic
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Diasperus urinaria (L.) Kuntze |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Diagnostic Keys
Branchlets angled, stem light reddish-green, capsule rough, sub-orbicular
Sanswrang Basumatary
| Attributions | Sanswrang Basumatary |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Description
Erect herbs to 40 cm tall; young stem and leaves reddish. Leaves 0.6-1.2 x 0.4-0.6 cm, oblong, base oblique, margin ciliate, apex acute to apiculate, glabrous; stipules c. 1mm long, linear to subulate. Male flowers in axillary clusters; tepals 6, 1-seriate, orbicular; stamens 5, filaments united; disc 6-lobed. Female flowers in lower axils, solitary; tepals 6, obovate-oblong; ovary warted without; stigma 3, each 2-fid; disc annular. Capsule 2-3 mm across, globose, 3-lobed, sessile, verrucose. Seeds 6, trigonous, transversely ridged.
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
Cyclicity
Fl. & Fr----Febuary---June
Sanswrang Basumatary
| Attributions | Sanswrang Basumatary |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Flowering and fruiting: July-October
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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Reproduction
Seeds
Sanswrang Basumatary
| Attributions | Sanswrang Basumatary |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Life Expectancy
1 Year
Sanswrang Basumatary
| Attributions | Sanswrang Basumatary |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Morphology
Herbs, glabrous throughout, upto 11 cm high, covering area ca.12 x 13 cm; stem errect, hard, ca. 0.15 cm diameter; leaves pinnately compound, odd-pinnate; rachis with leafy winged; leaflet alternate, entire, obovate, base slightly oblique, apex rounded, mucronate, deep green, sometimes reddish; petiolule very short, ca. 0.05 cm long; lamina 0.8-1.1 x 0.4-0.6 cm, adaxially deep green, with indistinct vein, abaxially light green, with distinct lateral veins ca. 3 pairs; male flowerr ca. 0.2 x 0.2 cm, actinomorphic, singly borned, axillary, developed on upper part of rachis, calyx 6, free, white, membranous; stamens 3, closely associated, yellow; staminodes 6, arising between the base of two sepals; female flower singly, axillary, sub-sessile, ca. 0.15 x 0.15 cm, developed on lower part of rachis; sepals 6, green, persistant, free; style 3, free, green; fruits sub-sessile, 0.15 x 0.3 cm, green, rough, tuberculate, base with 6 persistant sepals; seeds 6, 3 sided, ca. 0.1 cm, unequal, brown-red, with 7-11 sharp transverse ribs on back.
Sanswrang Basumatary
| Attributions | Sanswrang Basumatary |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Forest, thicklets
Sunny area or in shady places
Sanswrang Basumatary
| Attributions | Sanswrang Basumatary |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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In the plains, also in degraded deciduous forests
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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Description
Global Distribution
India: Assam, Odisha
Local Distribution
Western Assam
Global Distribution
CHINA, AFRICA
Local Distribution
Assam and in other states of India
Sanswrang Basumatary
| Attributions | Sanswrang Basumatary |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Global Distribution
Native of Tropical East Asia; now a Circumtropical weed
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: All Districts
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 |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
Risk Statement
Not at risk
Sanswrang Basumatary
| Attributions | Sanswrang Basumatary |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Protection Legal Status
Common in roadside, domestic area
Sanswrang Basumatary
| Attributions | Sanswrang Basumatary |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
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📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Siddha
Traditional chinese medicine
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Siddha, Traditional chinese medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1651
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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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 |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- 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=1651
- Phyllanthus urinaria L., Sp. Pl. 982. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 293. 1887; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1289(902). 1925; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 266. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 372. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 345. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 425. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 367. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 734. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 437. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 425. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 333. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 16. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 413. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 294. 1997; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 640. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 379. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 297. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 619. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 455. 2005; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 389. 2007; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 649. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 752. 2009.
- Phyllanthus leprocarpus Wight, Ic. t. 1895. f. 4. 1852.
Information Listing > References
- 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=1651
- Phyllanthus urinaria L., Sp. Pl. 982. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 293. 1887; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1289(902). 1925; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 266. 1982; Mohanan, Fl. Quilon Dist. 372. 1984; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 345. 1985; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 425. 1988; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 367. 1989; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 734. 1990; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 437. 1990; M. Mohanan & Henry, Fl. Thiruvanthapuram 425. 1994; Subram., Fl. Thenmala Div. 333. 1995; Sasidh. et al., Bot. Stud. Med. Pl. Kerala 16. 1996; Sasidh. & Sivar., Fl. Pl. Thrissur For. 413. 1996; Sasidh., Fl. Shenduruny WLS 294. 1997; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 640. 1997; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 379. 1998; Sasidh., Fl. Parambikulam WLS 297. 2002; Mohanan & Sivad., Fl. Agasthyamala 619. 2002; Anil Kumar et al., Fl. Pathanamthitta 455. 2005; N.P.Balakr. & Chakrab., Fam. Euphorbiaceae India 389. 2007; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 649. 2009; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 752. 2009.
- Phyllanthus leprocarpus Wight, Ic. t. 1895. f. 4. 1852.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
| Order | Malpighiales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl |
| Family | Phyllanthaceae |
| Genus | Phyllanthus |
| Species | Phyllanthus urinaria L. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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