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Friday, March 16, 2018

Pol Pala (පොල් පලා) Aerva lanata




Common name - Pol Pala

Botanical name - Aerva lanata

Family - Amaranthaceae

Life cycle - Perennial

Morphology 

  • Herb, erect or prostrate with a long tap-root, branched from near the base; branches many, pubescent or wolly- tomentose, striate.
  • Leaves alternate, 2-2 × 1-1.6 cm on the main stem, 6-10 x 5-6 mm on the branches, elliptic or obovate, or subotbicular, obtuse or acute, entire, pubescent above, more or less white with cottony hairs beneath; petioles 3-6 mm long, often obscure.
  • Fruit greenish, roundish, compressed urticle and seeds kidney shaped with shining black coriaceous testa
  • Flowers greenish white, very small, sessile, often bisexual, in small dense subsessile axillary heads or spikes 6-13 mm long, often closely crowded and forming globose clusters; bracteoles 1.25 mm, long, membranous, broadly ovate, concave, apiculate. Perianth 1.5-1.25 mm long; sepals oblong, obtuse, sometimes apiculate, silky-hairy on the back. Utricle broadly ovoid, acute; stigmas two, seed 0.85 mm in diameter, smooth and polished, black.

Propagation 

  • By seeds

Agricultural usage/ importance 

  • In the Traditional System of Medicine, the plant is 
  • being used as diuretic and anthelmintic, anti-diabetic, 
  • expectorant and in the treatment of lithiasis

Control method



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