Spade Flower is a perennial herb or small shrub native to South Asia. It grows up to 60 cm tall with linear to lance-shaped leaves that are 1-5 cm long. Pink-purple spade-shaped flowers occur singly. Several parts of the plant have traditional medicinal uses as a diuretic, demulcent, and tonic to treat urinary and bowel issues. However, it can be difficult to collect enough of the plant for medicinal purposes due to its small size.
Spade Flower is a perennial herb or small shrub native to South Asia. It grows up to 60 cm tall with linear to lance-shaped leaves that are 1-5 cm long. Pink-purple spade-shaped flowers occur singly. Several parts of the plant have traditional medicinal uses as a diuretic, demulcent, and tonic to treat urinary and bowel issues. However, it can be difficult to collect enough of the plant for medicinal purposes due to its small size.
Spade Flower is a perennial herb or small shrub native to South Asia. It grows up to 60 cm tall with linear to lance-shaped leaves that are 1-5 cm long. Pink-purple spade-shaped flowers occur singly. Several parts of the plant have traditional medicinal uses as a diuretic, demulcent, and tonic to treat urinary and bowel issues. However, it can be difficult to collect enough of the plant for medicinal purposes due to its small size.
Spade Flower is a perennial herb or small shrub native to South Asia. It grows up to 60 cm tall with linear to lance-shaped leaves that are 1-5 cm long. Pink-purple spade-shaped flowers occur singly. Several parts of the plant have traditional medicinal uses as a diuretic, demulcent, and tonic to treat urinary and bowel issues. However, it can be difficult to collect enough of the plant for medicinal purposes due to its small size.
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Spade Flower
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Common name: Spade Flower, Pink ladies slipper Hindi:
Kannada:
Ratan purush Bengali: Munbora
Purusharathna Malayalam: Orilathamatai Telugu:
Ratnapurusha
Marathi: Rathanparas Sanskrit:
Rathnapurusha Botanical name: Hybanthus enneaspermus Family: Violaceae (Violet family) Synonyms: Ionidium suffruticosum Spade Flower is a perennial herb or small shrub to 60 cm high, smooth or hairy. Leaves are linear to lance-like, 1-5 cm long, margins recurved to revolute, occasionally flat; stipules acuminate, 1-4 mm long. Pink-purple spade-shaped flowers occur solitary. Sepals 3-4 mm long. Lower petal broad spadeshaped, pink-purple, with deep purple veins. Upper petals linear-oblong, 3-4 mm long; lateral pair 4.55 mm long. Anthers without appendages. Capsule 4-9 mm long; seeds 5-12, pitted between ribs. Medicinal uses: This herb is considered to be extremely beneficial to men, used as a diuretic, demulcent and tonic. The root is diuretic and is used in urinary affections and bowel complaints of children. Decoction of leaves and tender stalks is demulcent. The fruit is used to treat scorpion sting. It is a hard task to collect adequate quantities of whole plants, let alone individual parts. Identification credit: Akramul Hoque Photographed in Mahabalipuram, Tamil Nadu.
Annual herbs to 30 cm high; stem woody at base, scabrous. Leaves subsessile, 0.6-3 x 0.3-1 cm, linear-lanceolate or ellipticlanceolate, base attenuate, margins distantly crenate, crenations scabrous hairy, apex acute, hirsute; stipules 1-2 mm long, linearlanceolate. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicel 0.6-1.5 cm long, slender. Sepals 5, subequal, 2-3 x 1 mm, lanceolate, acute, ciliate. Petals 5, pinkish, unequal; lower one 0.8-1.5 cm long, suborbicular, clawed, other 4 smaller, 3-5 mm long, elliptic or triangularoblong. Stamens 5, c. 2 mm long. Ovary ovoid, 1-celled; ovules many; style clavate; stigma oblique. Capsules 5-8 mm long, ovoid. Seeds many, ovoid.
