Merremia tridentata - Arrow leaf Morning Glory

❏ Binomial Name : Merremia tridentata (L.) Hallier f.

❏ Synonym : Convolvulus tridentatus,Ipomoea tridentata

❏ Family : Convolvulaceae

❏ Common Name : Arrow leaf Morning Glory

❏ Tamil Name : Mudhiyaar koondhal

❏ IUCN status: Not Evaluated

Merremia tridentata Botanical Description

Trailing herbs with long slender branches and thick root-stock. Leaves 2-4 x 0.5-1.2 cm, linear-lanceolate, base auricled and toothed, apex acute, mucronate, sessile to subsessile. Flowers axillary few-flowered cymes, sometimes solitary; peduncle 1-2 cm long. Sepals 5-6 x 2-3 mm, lanceolate, acuminate. Corolla campanulate, cream coloured or yellow with a purplish eye at centre; tube 1-1.5 cm long; limb spreading 1-1.5 cm across, subentire. Stamens 5. Ovary 2-celled; stigma 2-lobed. Capsules 5-8 mm across, subglobose. Seeds 4, glabrous, brown. Fl. &Fr.: November-January.

Merremia tridentata Medicinal uses

❀ The plant is bitter, astringent, calefacient, laxative, purgative and tonic

❀ A decoction of the whole plant gives rapid relief and cure from various ophthalmias

❀ The leaves are taken as an antidote for snake-bite

❀ The whole plant, or the roots, are used for treating rheumatism and dysentery

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