Flowering class: Monocot
Habit: Herb
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Ambrosina spirialis (Retz.) Roxb. |
| synonym | Arum spirale Retz. |
🗒 Common Names
| No Data |
📚 Overview
Description
Rhizome to 1.5 cm in diameter. Leaves with petiole to 25 cm long, lamina to 18 x 3 cm, linear-lanceolate, tip acute, minutely apiculate, base cuneate. Peduncle to 8 cm; spathe to 13 cm long, basal tubular portion to 2 cm long and about 8 mm in diameter., limb expanded, lanceolate, acuminate, spirally twisted, 6-11.5 cm long, light purplish to green purplish outside, dark purplish and with subhorizontal lamellations within; spadix about 1.9 cm, with female portion to 4 mm, interstice to 11 mm, male portion to 3 mm. Female flowers with style very short, thick, slightly decurved; stigma broadly elliptic. Neuter flowers few, dark purplish-coloured.
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 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Marshy areas with stagnant water
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 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Description
Global Distribution
India extending to Bangladesh
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Alappuzha, Kasaragode, Malappuram, Kozhikkode, Thrissur
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 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Folk medicine
System Of Medicines Used In
Folk medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=3269
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=3269 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Ambrosinia spirale (Retz.) Roxb., Fl. Ind. 3: 492. 1832.
- Arum spirale Retz., Obs. Bot. 1: 30. 1779.
- Cryptocoryne spiralis (Retz.) Fisch. ex Wydler, Linnaea 5: 428. 1830; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 494. 1893; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1575(1099). 1931; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 302. 1982; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 403. 1985; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 839. 1990; Joseph, Aquatic Angiosp. Malabar 281. 1991; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 756. 1997; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 723. 2009.
- Cryptocoryne huegellii Schott, Aroid. 8, t. 12. 1853; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 494. 1893.
- Cryptocoryne tortuosa Blatt. & McCann, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 35: 16, t. 1. 1931.
- 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=3269
Information Listing > References
- Ambrosinia spirale (Retz.) Roxb., Fl. Ind. 3: 492. 1832.
- Arum spirale Retz., Obs. Bot. 1: 30. 1779.
- Cryptocoryne spiralis (Retz.) Fisch. ex Wydler, Linnaea 5: 428. 1830; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 494. 1893; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1575(1099). 1931; Manilal & Sivar., Fl. Calicut 302. 1982; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 403. 1985; Babu, Fl. Malappuram Dist. 839. 1990; Joseph, Aquatic Angiosp. Malabar 281. 1991; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 756. 1997; Sunil & Sivadasan, Fl. Alappuzha Dist. 723. 2009.
- Cryptocoryne huegellii Schott, Aroid. 8, t. 12. 1853; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 6: 494. 1893.
- Cryptocoryne tortuosa Blatt. & McCann, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 35: 16, t. 1. 1931.
- 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=3269
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Liliopsida |
| Order | Alismatales |
| Family | Araceae |
| Genus | Cryptocoryne |
| Species | Cryptocoryne spiralis (Retz.) Fisch. ex Wydler |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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