Flowers - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 46386 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 122.00 ACANTHACEAE Peristrophe bicalyculata | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Flowers | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Flowers | Geography Description | India, Bombay | ||
| Uses | FlowersUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | India Museum | Donor No | 462 | ||
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| Notes: | Label source: The whole herb is gathered and dried, and used as a substitute for the true Pitapra - Fumaria parviflora. Materia Medica - Not in Pharmacopoeia of India. Stem is much branched, six sided, rough and covered with white jointed hairs, leaves, ovate, acuminate, rough, a few jointed hairs scattered here and there; peduncles axillary, branches dichotomous, flower heads 1 - 1.5 ins ling, flowers small, pink, root slender, long, woody straight, with numerous slender stems rising from the crown., This is a small plant, and very abundant in the rainy season. It has a faintly bitter disagreeable taste, and is used as a substitute for Fumaria, the true Pitpapre. Dymock (Pharm Journ) | ||||