![](images-template/spacer.gif) |
![](images-template/plants-table_corner_TL.png) |
![](images-template/spacer.gif) |
![](images-template/plants-table_corner_TR.png) |
![](images-template/spacer.gif) |
Zanonia indica L.
|
![](images-template/spacer.gif) |
![](images-template/plants-table_corner_BL.png) |
![](images-template/spacer.gif) |
![](images-template/plants-table_corner_BR.png) |
![](images-template/spacer.gif) |
![](images-template/plants-table_corner_TL.png) |
![](images-template/spacer.gif) |
![](images-template/plants-table_corner_TR.png) |
![](images-template/spacer.gif) |
Scientific Synonyms:
|
|
Previous name used in the website: |
Zanonia indica |
Family name: |
CUCURBITACEAE
|
English name: |
Available soon
|
Sinhala name: |
Wal rasakinda (වල් රසකිඳ)
|
Tamil name: |
Available soon
|
Sanskrit name: |
Available soon
|
Conservation status: |
VU - Vulnerable - NRL - 2020
|
Description: |
Perennial, dioecious, climbing, semi-woody. Leaves deciduous; lamina 7 - 15.5 x 3.5 - 6.5 (-11) cm, broadly ovate to lanceolate, acute-acuminate or obtuse, apiculate, rounded or cordate at base, entire, subcoriaceous, glabrous to minutely pubescent especially beneath. Male panicles 7 - 30 cm or more long, minutely pubescent; flower pale green, bractate. Female racemes 20 38 cm long, glabrous; flowers bractate. Fruit 9 - 12 X 3 - 3.5 cm, pendent, cylindric, somewhat trigonous, apex truncate, base attenuate. Seeds not seen.
|
Native Distribution Status: |
Native
|
Edible parts: |
Available soon
|
Treatment for: |
Asthma Cough Nervous irritation caused by boils
|
Parts used in Treatment: |
Stem Leaves Fruit
|
Related Medical Properties: |
Febrifuge Cathartic
|
|
![](images-template/spacer.gif) |
![](images-template/plants-table_corner_BL.png) |
![](images-template/spacer.gif) |
![](images-template/plants-table_corner_BR.png) |
|
![](images-template/spacer.gif) |
![](images-template/plants-table_corner_TL.png) |
![](images-template/spacer.gif) |
![](images-template/plants-table_corner_TR.png) |
![](images-template/spacer.gif) |
Image will be available soon
|
![](images-template/spacer.gif) |
![](images-template/plants-table_corner_BL.png) |
![](images-template/spacer.gif) |
![](images-template/plants-table_corner_BR.png) |
|
![](images-template/spacer.gif) |