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Nagaimudha PRODUCT NAME

Biophytum sensitivum (L.) DC. = Oxalis sensitive Linn. SCIENTIFIC NAME

Common Name: Nagaimudha
Local Name: Nagaimudha (Kurumba): Tamil-Tintanali; Sanskrit-Viparitalajju; Hindi-Alm bhusha, Lajjalu; Malayalam-Mukkutti.
Family: Oxalidaceae
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Product Description: A small herb Flower: In terminal umbels, yellow Fruit: A capsule, glandular-pubescent along septa. Seeds 2-4 per cell, acute, concentrically 9 ridged. Whole plant less than 6 inches, branching from more or less the same point
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Countries Found: India Malaysia
Description: Plains upto 1400m in pasture lands. Fallow fields in full sun. Locally abundant. Widely spread in Indo- Malaysian Tropics

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Partners: Keystone Foundation

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