Tinospora cordifolia

 

Family: MENISPERMACEAE

Malayalam Name(s): Amrthu, Amrutavalli, Chitamruthu, Siddamirth

English name(s): Moon creeper, Bile killer, Tinospora, Heart leaved moonseed

Habit: Climber

Flowering & Fruiting: January-June

Medicinal: Yes

Habitat: Moist deciduous forests and scrub jungles, also in the plains

Description: Climber, glabrous; stems smooth, developing a thin parchment-like bark. Leaves simple, alternate, broadly cordate to cordate, basal sinus often very broad, apex abruptly acuminate, 5-15x 5-13 cm; petioles 2-7 cm long. Inflorescences up to 15 cm long, appearing with leaves. Male flowers: main outer 3 sepals greenish-yellow, ovate 1-1.5 mm long, inner 3 elliptic, concave, 3-4 mm long; petals rhombic-clawed, externally papillose towards base, 2-2.5 mm long; stamen clavate, 3 mm long. Female flowers: petals broadly spathulate; staminodes 1.5 mm long, carpels 1.8 mm long. Drupes red, endocarp thinly bony, broadly elliptic to subrotund in outline, 6-7 mm long.

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