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Magnoliopsida
Lawsonia inermis L.
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Distribution: Africa and Asia.
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C. Asia, India, often cultivated.
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Field Tips
Branchlet tips spiny. Bark grayish brown, thin.
Flower
In terminal panicles, cream, fragrant. Flowering from January-April.
Fruit
A capsule, globose. Seeds many, flat. Fruits persistent.
Leaf Apices
Acute
Leaf arrangement
Opposite decussate
Leaf Bases
Attenuate
Leaf Margins
Entire
Leaf Shapes
Elliptic
Leaf Types
Simple
Habit
A deciduous shrub.
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Fragrant shrub, up to 2.5 m tall. Leaves elliptic, ovate or obovate, acute, obtuse or subacuminate, 8-44 mm long, 2-20 mm broad. Panicles 3-22 cm long. Pedicels 2-3.5 mm long. Sepals ovate. Petals 3-4 mm long, 4-5 mm broad. Filaments 4 mm long. Capsules (3-)4-8(-9) mm in diameter, wall veined.
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"Plains and lower hills, often cultivated. Central Asia and India."
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Fl. Per.: Oct.-Nov.
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Specimens with Barcodes: 19
Species With Barcodes: 1
Stem: Bark used as an emmenagogue in French Guiana. Leaf: Surinam Javans make a poultice from the leaf and apply it to cracks between the toes. In Surinam, a water infusion of the leaves mixed with tobacco and salt is used for a mouthwash. Leaf cooked in water and used for washing wounds. In French Guiana, employed to treat wounds, dartre, and possibly leprosy.
Leaf paste is used to dye hands.
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French Guiana: reseda de Cayenne. Guyana: henna. Surinam: reseda.