- Specimen details
| Catalogue Number: 51900 | |||||
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| No Image | Plant Name | 88.00 COMPOSITAE Centipeda orbicularis | Entry Book Number | ||
| Artefact Name | Vernacular Name | ||||
| Iso Country | India | TDWG Region | India | ||
| Parts Held | Geography Description | India | |||
| Uses | Use: MEDICINES User: Man | TDWG use | MEDICINES | ||
| Storage | Bottles, boxes etc | Related Items | |||
| Donor | Pharm Soc GB | Donor No | 13 E 9 | ||
| Donor Date | 00/00/1984 | Donor Notes | Col & Ind Exhib Date: 00/00/1886x0Dx0A | ||
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| Exhibition | Expedition | ||||
| Number Components | Publication | ||||
| Notes: | Label source: According to Roxburgh this plant appears during the latter part of the cold season on cultivated land. The whole plant does not cover a space of about 6 to 8 inches in diameter. The root is simple, the stems are several, branchy, pressing o, n the earth ; all are somewhat woolly. Leaves, numerous sessil, wedge shaped, deeply dentate, vilious. Flowers axillary, all in the divisions of the branches, solitary ; sessile, sub-globular, haeraphrodite florets, from 10 to 12 in the centre, with their, border four toothed, coloured and expanding ; the female ones very numerous in the circumference, most minute, with the border seemingly three toothed, and the toothlets in curved. Receptacle naked. It differs from A.minima in having sessile downy leaves, and numerous flosculi in flower the minute seeds are used as a sternutatory by the Hindus, also the powdered herb. The plant does not grow in this part of India, but the dry herb, both entire and in powder, is always to be obtained in the druggist's sho, ps. Value about annas 6 per lb. | ||||
| Determinations: | 88.00 COMPOSITAE Centipeda orbicularis Lour. 88.00 COMPOSITAE Sphaeromorphaea russeliana DC. | ||||