Passiflora foetida - Stinking Passion flower

❏ Binomial Name : Passiflora foetida L.

❏ Synonym : Tripsilina foetida,Passiflora obscura,Dysosmia ciliata

❏ Family : Passifloraceae

❏ Common Name : Stinking Passion flower

❏ Tamil Name : Poonaipiduku

❏ Hindi Name : Jhumka Lata

❏ IUCN status: Not Evaluated

Passiflora foetida Botanical Description

A vine with densely hispid branchlets. Leaves usually 3-5-lobed to halfway, suborbicular -ovate, appressed glandular-pubescent, base cordate, margin subentire to ciliate, apex acute; stipules sub-reniform, deeply cleft into glandular processes. Flowers about 4 cm across, axillary, often solitary; bract and bracteoles 2-3 cm, deeply pinnateisect, glandular -pubescent. Calyx tube short, saucer shaped, lobes ovate-lanceolate. Petals slightly shorter than the calyx lobes. Androgynophore 4-6 mm. Ovary globose. Fruit berry, subglobose, approximately 4 cm across. Fl. &Fr.: November-February.

Passiflora foetida Medicinal uses

❀ Pulp of the ripe fruit is eaten; it can also be taken as "shorbet"

❀ The fresh, whole plant is boiled and the liquid used as a children's anthelmintic, for intestinal nematodes and flatworms

❀ A decoction of the dried plant is drunk to treat colds and chest coughs

❀ The leaves are crushed in water and the solution drunk as an antidote to the bite of the Papuan Black Snake

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