Occasional in marshy areas. The plant is used in traditional medicine to treat epilepsy and asthma. It is also used as a remedy for biliousness, neuralgia, inflammations, insanity, amentia, tumours, bronchitis, skin diseases, syphilis, at ulcers, elephantiasis, dysmenorrhoea, fev
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The plant is used in traditional medicine to treat epilepsy and asthma. It is also used as a remedy for biliousness, neuralgia, inflammations, insanity, amentia, tumours, bronchitis, skin diseases, syphilis, at ulcers, elephantiasis, dysmenorrhoea, fever and general debility. to or
family
Scrophulariaceae
synonym
Lysimachia monnieri L., Gratiola monnieri (L.) L.
description
Aquatic or amphibious, semi- is succulent, prostrate herbs; stem creeping, × branches ascending. Leaves 1-1.5 0.4-0.6 cm, ovate-oblong or spathulate, rounded at apex, base narrowed, punctate above, thick, sessile. Flowers solitary, axillary; pedicels to 2.5 cm long. Calyx-lobes 5, unequal; outer × calyx lobe ca. 5 4 mm, ovate, others slightly smaller. Corolla bluish-white, ca. 8 mm long, broadly campanulate, faintly 2-lipped; lobes 5, subequal. Stamens 4, didynamous. Ovary oblong-globose; style slightly × deflexed. Capsule 3-4 1.5-2 mm, ovoid or oblong, enclosed in calyx; seeds ca. 0.5 mm long, oblong, reticulate.
native range
South Asia, Australia, Africa, Europe and South America.