| Royle's Pergularia |
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| File size | 480349 |
| Original date | 6/22/06 2:36 PM |
| Resolution | 2048 x 1536 |
| Flash | Flash fired, auto |
| Focal length | 17.4mm |
| Exposure time | 1/120s |
| Aperture | 15.1 |
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| Metering Mode | Multi-segment |
| Camera make | NIKON |
| Camera model | COOLPIX S6 |
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Botanical name: Marsdenia roylei Family: Apocynaceae (Oleander family)
Synonyms: Pergularia roylei
Synonyms: Pergularia roylei
Royle's Pergularia is a softly hairy climbing
shurb, juice milky, woody branches with raised warts. It has
heart-shaped leaves and orange flowers crowded into branched
flat-topped stalked clusters 2.5-4 cm across, in leaf axils. Flowers
are about 6 mm across with 5 fleshy spreading petals which are densely
hairy above except on the margins. Corona lobes are linear erect, much
longer than the anthers, with converging tips. Sepals and flower-stalls
have a dense felt of hairs. Leaves are stalked, 6-15 cm, pointed.
Seed-pods are hairy, deeply wrinkled, about 8 cm by 2.5-4 cm, beaked.
Royle's Pergularia is found in the Himalayas, from Pakistan to
Arunachal Pradesh and Myanmar, at altitudes of 900-2400 m.
Flowering: May-June.
Fl. Per.: June-August.
Lectotype: Simla, 19.6.1831, Lady Dalhausie 217 (K, E).
Distribution: Himalaya, from Indus eastwards to Sikkim, 3000-7000 ft.
Medicinal uses: 
The juice of the stem is used in the treatment of gastric troubles and
peptic ulcers.
The juice of the stem is used in the treatment of gastric troubles and
peptic ulcers. | Identification credit: Krishan Lal | Photographed in Sirmaur Distt, Himachal Pradesh. |
• Is this flower misidentified? If yes,