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State Medicinal Plants Board (SMPB) Kerala

Ipomoea obscura (L.) Ker-Gawl.

  • Family: Convolvulaceae
  • Vernacular names: Cherutali, Thiruthali, ചെറുതാളി, തിരുതാളി (Malayalam), Siruttaalai (Tamil)
  • Distribution: China, Tropical Asia and Africa
  • Description: Slender twining herbs. Leaves, ovate to cordate, pubescent or glabrescent on both surfaces. Flowers yellow or white with purple, solitary or in sub-umbellate cymes. Capsule, sub globose, apically beaked; seeds ovoid, black, thinly pubescent.
  • Habit: Climbers/Lianas
  • Habitat: Degraded forest areas and also in the plains
  • Flowering & Fruiting: October-March

  • Parts used: Leaves
  • Properties & Uses: Leaves are aromatic and useful in aphthous affections and sores.
  • Systems of Medicines: Ayurveda, Folk,
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