Morphological information

A glabrous shrub, 0.6-0.9 m high branches erect or prostrate and rooting. Leaves 2.5-10 cm long,elliptic-lanceolate or oblanceolate, acute, clecurrent into short petiole, entire or minutely crenate,serrate, glabrous, mucronate, pale beneath; stipules minute subulate, caduceus. Flowers mostly solitary and axillary, yellow lanceolate, acute, 12.7-15 mm long. Petals- 5, contorted, obovate,cuneate, about 2.5 cm long. Stamens 5, connate at the base, hypogonous with as many interposed staminoides in some flowers shorter in others longer than the style. Glands 2-3 adnate to the  starninal tube. Ovary 3- 5 celled, cells 2- locellate; ovules one in each locellus; styles normally 3, free  or connate at the base, sometimes 4,5 or 7 of different lengths. Capsule globose, the size of a pea,shorter than the persistant sepals.

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Parts                        : Leaves and stems.

Status                      : Low risk

Medicinal                  : It is used as a medicine in cattle. The crushed leaves and stems are applied to wounds infested with maggots. The plant is used

                                    for the treatment of paralysis.