Pol Pala Aerva lanata
Common name - Pol Pala
Botanical name - Aerva lanata
Family - Amaranthaceae
Life cycle - Perennial
Morphology
- Herb, erect or prostrate with a long tap-root, branched from near the base; branches many, pubescent or wolly- tomentose, striate.
- Leaves alternate, 2-2 × 1-1.6 cm on the main stem, 6-10 x 5-6 mm on the branches, elliptic or obovate, or subotbicular, obtuse or acute, entire, pubescent above, more or less white with cottony hairs beneath; petioles 3-6 mm long, often obscure.
- Fruit greenish, roundish, compressed urticle and seeds kidney shaped with shining black coriaceous testa
- Flowers greenish white, very small, sessile, often bisexual, in small dense subsessile axillary heads or spikes 6-13 mm long, often closely crowded and forming globose clusters; bracteoles 1.25 mm, long, membranous, broadly ovate, concave, apiculate. Perianth 1.5-1.25 mm long; sepals oblong, obtuse, sometimes apiculate, silky-hairy on the back. Utricle broadly ovoid, acute; stigmas two, seed 0.85 mm in diameter, smooth and polished, black.
Propagation
Agricultural usage/ importance
- In the Traditional System of Medicine, the plant is
- being used as diuretic and anthelmintic, anti-diabetic,
- expectorant and in the treatment of lithiasis
Control method
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