Trees & Plants

Apluda

Maakaasinjee

Apluda mutica L.

Common in open areas 2 The whole plant is used to cure gonorrhea and as a diuretic. It is also a remedy for wounds caused by snake bites, d; sores and fungal infections. The plant, made into a paste, is utilized as a balm on the paralytic part of patients to regain sensation.

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uses: The whole plant is used to cure gonorrhea and as a diuretic. It is also a remedy for wounds caused by snake bites, d; sores and fungal infections. The plant, made into a paste, is utilized as a balm on the paralytic part of patients to regain sensation.
family: Poaceae
synonym: Apluda aristata L., Calamina mutica (L.) P.Beauv.
description: Annual herbs; culms to × 150 cm high. Leaves 5-22 0.4-1 cm, elliptic-lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, base attenuate; sheath to 7 cm long. Inflorescence a false interrupted panicle, 5-40 cm long; racemes solitary from a peduncled, glabrous, pinkish spatheole. Spikelets 3-per raceme, 1 sessile, 2 pedicelled. Sessile spikelets 3-7 mm long, lower male, upper bisexual; lower glume × 3-7 1-2 mm, lanceolate, shortly bifid; × upper glume 3-6 1-2 mm, boat-shaped, beaked, keeled. Palea equal to lemma. × Stamens 3. Palea 1-2 0.5-1 mm, ovate, 2-keeled, hyaline. Stamens 3; anthers 2-3 mm long, cream in colour with violet margins. Ovary 0.5-1 mm, oblong; stigma 1.5-2.5 mm, pink, feathery. Spikelet × 3-7 0.5-2 mm, lanceolate, shortly bifid. to
native range: Asia-Pacific region
distribution: Tropical Africa, tropical and temperate Asia, Australia and the Pacific. a
english names: Apluda
flowering fruiting: October- November
occurrence maldives: Common in open areas 2