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WATER
LILY
Scientific Name ¦- Nymphaea
rubra Roxb.
Family ¦- Nymphaeaceae
Vernacular Names
English ¦- Water lily
Malayalam ¦- Aambal
Hindi ¦- Chhota kamal
Sanskrit ¦- Aruna kamala.
Bengali ¦– Rakta kamal
Tamil ¦– Allitamarai
Telugu ¦– Allitamara
Distribution and Habitat
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Common throughout India in the warmer parts.
Parts Used ¦- Root stalk,
flower.
Properties ¦- Stomachic,
antidiarrhoeal.
Uses ¦- Flower is
used in removing impurities from the blood, thirst, and cough and vomiting.
Powdered rootstock is used in dyspepsia, diarrhoea, piles.
Botany ¦- Aquatic
herbs. Root stock tuberous, short, erect, and roundish. Leaves peltate, 15-25
cm diameter, sharply toothed, downy but not spotted beneath. Lobes diverging;
connectivum not prolonged. Petioles very long, cylindric, submerged, glabrous
or puberulous, inserted 12-18 mm within very near the margin of the leaf.
Flowers, solitary,7.5-20 cm across, deep red, pale rose or white, open in the
mornings only; peduncles very long, usually pubescent; torus bottle shaped.
Sepals 4, oblong, obtuse, 5-10 ribbed. Petals numerous, about 12, oblong,
obtuse, about thrice as long as broad. Stamens about 40; anthers without
appendages; filaments much dilated at the base; pollen smooth. Stigma 10-20,
rayed, with clavate appendages. Fruits 3 cm diam, fleshy, globose, green,
ripening beneath the water. Seeds ovoid, rough, aril white, transparent.
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