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Turpeth root |
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| Halbi Name | Svetha,Trivrt, |
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| Vernacular name | ||
| Scientific name | Operculina turpethum (L.) Silva Manso | |
| Family | ||
| Season | Rabi | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | Perennial herbaceous, hairy vines growing 4 to 5 meter in length with milky juice pubscent twiner, endemic to India. Stem very long, twining and much twisted together, angled and winged, tough and brown when old. | |
| Leaves | Alternate, simple, very variable in shape, ovate, oblong and truncate or cordate at the base. | Photo Gallery |
| Flower | The flowers large, axillary and solitary. Flower | |
| Fruit/ seed | Capsule with conspicuous enlarged sepals and thickened pedicles. Gloobose, enclosed in the enlarged brittle very imbricate sepals. Seeds round, black one in each cell. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Bunds or fences | |
| Flowering and fruiting | November - March | |
| Associated with | Fence flora | |
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