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Aeginetia indica L.

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Species

Angiosperms > Lamiales > Orobanchaceae > Aeginetia

Characteristics

Plants 15-40(-50) cm tall. Root slightly fleshy, with small branches. Stems unbranched or branched from near base. Leaves red, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 5-10 X 3-4 mm, glabrous. Flowers usually solitary. Pedicel usually erect, 10-30(-40) cm, ca. 3 mm in diam. Calyx apex acute or acuminate. Corolla purple-red striate, indistinctly bilabiate, tubular-campanulate, 2-4.5 cm; tube slightly curved; lobes subentire. Filaments purple, 7-9 mm, glabrous; anthers yellow. Ovary 1-locular; parietal placentas 4. Style 1-1.5 cm; stigma pale yellow. Capsule conical, or long ovoid-globose, 2-3 cm. Seeds yellow, ellipsoid, ca. 0.04 mm. Fl. Apr-Aug, fr. Aug-Oct. 2n = 30.
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A herb which grows attached to other plants such as grasses. The roots are juicy. They fix on the roots of bambus, grasses and ginger family plants. It is un-branched. The stem is 3-6 cm long. It is leafless. The flowers occur singly at the end of a stalk 15-35 cm long. They are pale violet or red striped. They are tubular and emerge from a large, nodding, sleeve like calyx. The fruit is a capsule with many white seeds inside.
Life form perennial
Growth form herb
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.15 - 0.4
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Environment

It is a tropical plant. It occurs on wet ground in hill forests. It grows in limestone country.
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Grassy places in lowlands and low mountains.
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Soil texture 3-4
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-11

Usage

The juice from the flower is used to colour sticky rice dishes. The plant is eaten with sugar and nutmeg.
Uses medicinal
Edible flowers
Therapeutic use Burns (fruit), Female urogenital diseases (fruit), Snake bites (root), Burns (seed), Aphrodisiac (unspecified), Impotency (unspecified), Spermatorrhea (unspecified), Tonic (unspecified)
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
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Images

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Distribution

Aeginetia indica world distribution map, present in Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, India, Japan, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Korea (Democratic People's Republic of), Thailand, Taiwan, Province of China, and Viet Nam

Conservation status

Aeginetia indica threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:661840-1
WFO ID wfo-0000521508
COL ID 659FT
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INPN ID -
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Aeginetia aeginetia Aeginetia boninensis Aeginetia indica Aeginetia japonica Aeginetia mairei Orobanche aeginetia Phelypaea indica Aeginetia indica var. gracilis
WorldFloraDB 2024