Leaves and stems - Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 48886 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 112.01 BORAGINACEAE Heliotropium indicum | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Leaves and stems | Vernacular Name | |||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Leaves and stems | Geography Description | Maharashtra, Asia-Tropical, India, Bombay | ||
| Uses | Leaves and stemsUse: User: Not defined | TDWG use | |||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | India Museum | Donor No | |||
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| Notes: | Label source: An annual plant, one to two feet high, common in ditches in Bombay; it seems to like a rich soil. The whole plant is more or less covered with simple hairs, stems several, as thick as the little finger, common, branched from the axils of th, e leaves, leaves generally alternate, cordate, ovate, rugose, long petioled; petioles margined; spikes terminal, solitary, simple; flowers like those of Heliotrope, but smaller; fruit mitre shaped; the plant has a fetid odour like stramonium; taste a litt, le bitter. It is used as a local application to boils, sores, and the stings of insects. Dymock. Pharm. Journ. | ||||
| Determinations: | 112.01 BORAGINACEAE Heliotropium indicum L. 999.99 FAMILY UNKNOWN Tiaridium indicum | ||||