In open areas Tender leaves and young shoots are used as a vegetable. The juice of the plant is used to treat boils, dysentery, fevers, toothaches and urinary problems. Leaf and stem paste is applied locally to relieve itching. 4,
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Tender leaves and young shoots are used as a vegetable. The juice of the plant is used to treat boils, dysentery, fevers, toothaches and urinary problems. Leaf and stem paste is applied locally to relieve itching. 4,
family
Urticaceae
synonym
Parietaria zeylanica L. Boehmeria alienata Willd.
description
Slender procumbent herbs. × Leaves simple, alternate, 1.5-3 1-2 cm, ovate-elliptic, base rounded, apex acute, sparsely strigose, membranous, lateral nerves 3 or 4 pairs, basal pair opposite; petiole to 2 cm long. Flowers in axillary, subsessile clusters. Male flowers: 3-4 mm across; tepals 4, 1.5-2 mm long, ovate- lanceolate, sparsely villous; stamens 4, filaments ca. 2 mm long. Female flowers: tepals connate; style linear ca. 2 mm long, thinly pubescent. Achenes 2-winged.