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Rotula aquatica Lour.

Species

Angiosperms > Boraginales > Boraginaceae > Rotula

Characteristics

Shrub with many elongate, terete shoots. Leaves crowded on numerous lateral short-shoots, subcoriaceous; petiole 0.5-3 mm long; blade 0.6-2.5 by 0.2-0.9 cm, oblanceolate to oblong, strigose or woolly strigillose, rarely glabrous, with indistinct nerves. Inflorescence a short, terminal, few-flowered cyme; pedicels in axils of bracts. Calyx 4-5 mm long, lobes unequal in width, 0.5-1.5 mm wide. Corolla pink to purplish, 5-7 mm long, tube 1-2 mm long, lobes rounded, explanate. Stamens: filaments attached above middle of corolla-tube. Pistil: style undivided, 4-5 mm long. Fruit red, drupaceous, subglobose, 3-4 mm in diam. Fig. 11.
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Stems gray or black-gray, glabrous. Petiole 0.5-4 mm; leaf blade oblong or oblanceolate, 0.5-2.5 cm × 2-10 mm, ± leathery, strigose, base rounded, cuneate to broadly cuneate, margin entire, apex obtuse, mucronate. Corolla 6-7 × 6-7 mm. Fruit yellow-to brownish red, ca. 4 mm in diam., nearly dry.
A stiff-branched shrub 3-6 ft. high
Red flowers
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Growth form shrub
Growth support free-standing
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Sexuality hermaphrodite
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Mature height (meter) 0.91 - 1.83
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Environment

By streams or half-submerged.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

UsesMedicinal use is recorded in Jansen et al. Plant Resources of SE Asia (PROSEA Handb.), Basic List 1991 244
Uses medicinal
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Therapeutic use Hemorrhoids (root), Kidney calculi (root), Sexually transmitted diseases (root), Urinary bladder calculi (root), Urologic diseases (root), Kidney calculi (stem), Diuretic (unspecified), Laxative (unspecified), Piles (unspecified), Sudorific (unspecified), Stone (unspecified), Bladder (unspecified), Venereal (unspecified), Central nervous system diseases (unspecified), Diabetes mellitus (unspecified), Diarrhea (unspecified), Diuretics (unspecified), Hemorrhage (unspecified), Hemorrhoids (unspecified), Laxatives (unspecified), Psoriasis (unspecified), Sexually transmitted diseases (unspecified), Skin diseases (unspecified), Urinary bladder calculi (unspecified), Urination disorders (unspecified), Astringents (whole plant), Cough (whole plant), Diuretics (whole plant), Dysuria (whole plant), Fever (whole plant), Heart diseases (whole plant), Hematologic diseases (whole plant), Kidney calculi (whole plant), Laxatives (whole plant), Anti-poisoning (whole plant), Sexually transmitted diseases (whole plant), Ulcer (whole plant), Urinary bladder calculi (whole plant), Uterine diseases (whole plant)
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Images

Rotula aquatica unspecified picture

Distribution

Rotula aquatica world distribution map, present in Benin, Burkina Faso, Bangladesh, Brazil, China, Guinea, Indonesia, India, Iceland, Cambodia, Lao People's Democratic Republic, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Philippines, Papua New Guinea, Thailand, Viet Nam, and South Africa

Conservation status

Rotula aquatica threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:120581-1
WFO ID wfo-0000402739
COL ID 4TGSS
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Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Rhabdia aquatica Rhabdia fluvialis Rhabdia lycioides Zombiana africana Rhabdia sericea Rotula lycioides Rotula aquatica Ehretia lycioides Carmona lycioides Carmona viminea Ehretia aquatica Ehretia cuneata Ehretia uniflora Ehretia viminea Rhabdia viminea Bourreria uniflora Ehretia viminea
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