Trees & Plants

Bacopa

Veppilaa

Bacopa monnieri (L.) Wettst.

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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uses: 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.
distribution: Paleotropics
english names: Bacopa · Th yme leaved gratiola
flowering fruiting: Th roughout the year
occurrence maldives: Occasional in marshy areas.