Ipomoea obscura - Lesser Glory

❏ Binomial Name : Ipomoea obscura (L.) Ker Gawl.

❏ Synonym : Convolvulus obscurus,Merremia geophiloides,Ipomoea demissa

❏ Family : Convolvulaceae

❏ Common Name : Lesser Glory

❏ Tamil Name : Siruthaali

❏ Hindi Name : Pan Bel, Ker-gawl

❏ IUCN status: Not Evaluated

Ipomoea obscura Botanical Description

Slender twining herbs. Leaves 2.5-6 x 2-4 cm, ovate to cordate, base cordate, apex acuminate, pubescent or glabrescent on both surfaces; petiole to 3 cm long. Flowers solitary or in subumbellate cymes; pedicel to 1-1.5 cm long. Sepals 4-8 mm long, ovate-lanceolate, apex acute-apiculate. Corolla yellowish, throat purplish, 1.5-2.5 cm long, c. 2.5 cm across, campanulate. Stamens 5, villous at base. Ovary c. 1.5 mm long, conical; stigma capitate. Capsule 6-8 mm across, subglobose, apically beaked. Seeds c. 5 mm long, ovoid, black, thinly pubescent.

Fl. &Fr.: October-March

Ipomoea obscura Medicinal uses

❀ Leaves are crushed and applied to cure sprains.

❀ The leaf sap is used to treat fits of insanity

❀ A paste of the leaves, combined with the leaves of Argyreia mollis and alcohol, is applied to open sores and pustules

❀ The dried and powdered leaves are used to treat aphthae

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