| Indian Mallow |
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| File size | 1077020 |
| Original date | 12/2/07 2:37 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash did not fire, auto |
| Focal length | 8.0mm |
| Exposure time | 1/403s |
| Aperture | 3.2 |
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| Metering Mode | Partial |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | E3700 |
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Botanical name: Abutilon indicum Family: Malvaceae (Mallow family)
Synonyms: Sida indica
Indian Mallow is an erect velvety-pubescent shrub with circular-ovate or
heart-shaped leaves with coarsely crenate-serrate margins. The plant can
reach up to 1-2 m. The leaves are alternately arranged, and have long
stalks and have velvety, soft, pale hairs on them. Orange-yellow flowers,
2-3 cm across, occur solitary in axils, on long stalks, 4-7 cm.
Orange-yellow petals are triangular-obovate, 1 cm long or slightly more,
staminal-tube hairy with stellate hairs. Fruit is quite interesting - it is
circular in shape, consisting of 11-20 radiating hairy carpels, brown when
dry; each carpel flattened, somewhat boatshaped. Seeds are kidney-shaped.
The plant is a weed commonly found on disturbed land.
Flowering: September-April.
Medicinal uses: Extract of water-soaked dried seeds is used as purgative. Leaves are used as tonic. Roots are taken as infusion in fever.
Medicinal uses: Extract of water-soaked dried seeds is used as purgative. Leaves are used as tonic. Roots are taken as infusion in fever.
| Photographed at Okhla Pakshi Vihar, Delhi. |