Chandigarh Forests
Department of Forest & Wildlife
UT Administration
Chandigarh
Department of Forest & Wildlife
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Division
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Angiosperms |
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Class
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Dicotyledons |
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Subclass
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Gamopetalae |
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Series |
Hypogynae |
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Order |
Personales |
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Family |
Acanthaceae |
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Genus |
Barleria |
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Species |
prionitis |
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Etymology:
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Barleria prionitis Linn. |
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Local/Trade names: |
Kala bansa, Pila bansa |
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Description: |
A glabrous, branched, prickly undershrub with whitish bark. Stems 4-gonous. Leaves 6-15 cm long, 2.5 cm broad, elliptic, acuminate, bristle-tipped, pubescent, base tapering into a 1.5-2.5 cm long petiole. Flowers orange-yellow, often solitary in the lower axils, becoming spicate above. Fruit 1.5 cm long capsules, ovoid-conic, beaked. Seeds 2. |
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Distribution:
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Tropical Africa and Asia, Sri Lanka, South Africa, India. |
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Part used:
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Whole plant. |
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Where to see it |
Nursery, Medicinal plant garden. |
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Uses |
Juice of the leaves given with honey in catarrhal affections of children. A paste of the roots applied to boils and glandular swellings. Leaves chewed relieve toothache. Roots febrifuge. |
