3. ๏ Kingdom โ Plantae
๏ Phylum -Angiospermae
๏ Divisions - Eudicots
๏ Class - Asterids
๏ Order - Asterales
๏ Family - Asteraceae
๏ Genus - Emelia
๏ Species - sonchifolia
4. ๏ฝ Common tropical weed found everywhere in
India, commonly seen in waste ground and
road sides.
5.
6. ๏ฝ A Soft glabrous, scabrid or puberculous
central herb, annual, 30-40 cm ht, erect or
diffuse, variously branched.
๏ฝ LEAVES - Variable, simple, Lower leaves-
deeply and irregularly toothed, ovate or
triangular ovate, Upper leaves- Alternately
arranged, entire.
๏ฝ Leaves look like the ear of rabbits, hence the
name.
7. ๏ฝ Flower โ Purplish, corymbose, white soft.
๏ฝ Inflorescence - Involucrate flower head
๏ฝ Fruit โ Achenes, scabrid on ribs, brown
๏ฝ Seed โ small and single seeded.
๏ฝ Root โ Taproot
๏ฝ USEFUL PART - Whole plant
12. ๏ฝ Epidermis : A single layered epidermis -
compactly arranged parenchymatous
cells
๏ฝ Ground tissue : hypodermis ,cortex and
endodermis.
๏ฝ Hypodermis : Just below the epidermis consist of
few layered collenchymatous cells .
13. ๏ฝ Cortex : next to hypodermis 6-7 layered
cortex -chlorenchymatous.thin walled
cells.Cortical cells for food storage
๏ฝ Endodermis : below cortex. innermost layer of
cortex separating cortex from stele.
๏ฝ Stele : Pericycle, vascular bundle and pith together.
14. ๏ฝ Epidermis : upper epidermis and lower
epidermis, parenchymatous cells.
๏ฝ Mesophyll tissue : differentiated into palisade
and spongy layers.
โฆ Palisade cells -columnar in shape.
โฆ Spongy cells - below the lower epidermis
polygonal shaped
15. ๏ฝ Vascular bundle - embedded in mesophyll
tissue.
Xylem -towards upper epidermis and
phloem towards lower epidermis.
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17. Decoction on the Malabar coast as a febrifuge
and when mixed with sugar its juice is given
in bowel complaints.
In Travancore,pure juice of the leaves is
poured drop by drop in eyes for about 10
minutes โNight blindess.
Since juice is as cool as rose water and thus
prescribed in inflammation of eyes.
18. In Gold coast ,the leaves mixed with Guinea
grains and lime juice is the remedy for soar
throat.
In Indo-China,decoction of leaves as
purgative.
In La-Reunion,the plant is used as anti-
asthmatic.
19. In Gold coast ,the leaves mixed with Guinea
grains and lime juice is the remedy for soar
throat.
In Indo-China,decoction of leaves as
purgative.
In La-Reunion,the plant is used as anti-
asthmatic.
20. Thaila using kalka of Haridra,kalka of Yashti and
swarasa of muyalcheviyan along with camphor and
wax-externally for wound healing.
Root or whole plant in bowel complaints,diarrhoea
and cataract.
Whole plant made into kalka or paste-externally
against neck stiffness[By tribals of Palakkad]