Ludwigia prostrata - Creeping Water Primrose

❏ Binomial Name : Ludwigia prostrata Roxb.

❏ Synonym : Isnardia prostrata, Ludwigia diffusa, Ludwigia fruticulosa

❏ Family : Onagraceae

❏ Common Name : Creeping Water Primrose

❏ IUCN status: Not Evaluated

Ludwigia prostrata Botanical Description

Annual herbs to 60 cm tall, often red tinged; branchlets angled and slightly winged. Leaves elliptic to lanceolate, base attenuate, slightly decurrent, apex acute or acuminate, brownish on drying; lateral nerves 8-13 pairs, impressed above and raised below; petiole to 1 cm long. Flowers  solitary or clusters of 2-10 together, subsessile. Sepals 4, ovate-lanceolate, margin ciliate, apex acute, persistent. Petals yellow, oblanceolate or narrowly spathulate, base cuneate, apex acute, 1-nerved. Stamens 4; filaments 1 mm long, yellow; anthers closely appressed to the stigma. Ovary 5-8 x 1 mm, linear, 4-sided, hirsute; style 1 mm long; stigma globose, yellow. Capsule linear, curved, 4-angled, pale brown, thin-walled, sparsely hirsute or glabrous. Seeds in one row in each locule, 0.5 mm long, ovoid, pale pink, transversely striped with fine brown lines. Fl. &Fr.: June-December.

Ludwigia prostrata Medicinal uses

The whole plant used to treat Abscess and leucorrhea.

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