Chandigarh Forests
Department of Forest & Wildlife
UT Administration
Chandigarh
Department of Forest & Wildlife
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Division
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Angiosperms |
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Class
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Dicotyledons |
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Subclass |
Polypetalae |
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Series |
Calyciflorae |
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Order |
Rosales |
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Family
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Crassulaceae |
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Genus
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Bryophyllum |
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Species
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pinnatum |
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Etymology: |
Derived from Greek word “bryo”, to grow and “phyllum”, leaf; referring to the rooting or budding in the leaves. |
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Botanical name
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Bryophyllum pinnatum ( Lam.) Oken. |
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Local/Trade names:
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Parn-beej; Dardmar |
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Description: |
Perennial, glabrous, succulent herbs, 30-100cm high. Leaves usually simple, sometimes lobed or compound, with 3-leaflets, opposite, fleshy, stalked, ovate or oblong, crenate, obtuse. Flowers pendulous, cylindric, about 5cm long, in large terminal panicles; pedicel 1-1.5cm long. Follicles 4, many seeded, enclosed in persistent papery calyx and corolla. |
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Distribution:
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Native of Africa, cultivated in India. |
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Where to see it: |
Nursery, Medicinal plant garden. |
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Uses: |
Leaves supposed to be poisonous; poultice of leaves used to wounds and bruises. |
