Bryophyllum pinnatum

 

Family: CRASSULACEAE

Malayalam Name(s): Aakasachedi, Chodukkuchedi, Elachedi, Elamulachi, Ilamarunnu, Ilamulachi, Ilayilmelthyi, Kalliyilachedi, Punnuchedi

English name(s): Air plant, Good luck leaf, Hawaiian Air Plant, Life plant, Miracle leaf

Habit: Herb

Flowering & Fruiting: December-March

Medicinal: Yes

Habitat: Rocky areas in moist deciduous forests, also in the plains

Description: Subsucculent tall herbs. Leaves decussate, simple, elliptic-ovate, 5-10 by 3-6 cm, base cuneate, margin deeply crenate, apex obtuse to rounded, herbaceous. Inflorescence a cymose panicle. Flowers pendulous; calyx tube lobed above the middle, lobes 4, triangular; corolla greenish, 8-folded, glandular within; stamens 8, inserted above the constriction of corolla; hypogynous scales 4; carpels 4; ovules many. Follicle enclosed with reddish calyx.

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