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Indian sarsaparilla |
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 Main Photo of The Weed |
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| Vernacular name | Anatmul | |
| Scientific name | Hemidesmus indicus (L.) | |
| Family | Periplocaceae | |
| Season | Perennial | |
| Description | ||
| Plant | ||
| Leaves | Opposite and variable in size and shape, pale or whitish hairy on lower surface. | Photo Gallery |
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| Fruit/ seed | Fruit 10-15 cm long, green, narrow, cylindric, pointed at tip, in pair. Seeds-small, black, with a tauft of hairs at top. | |
| Habitat and distribution | Found under shade in moist localities or hedges | |
| Flowering and fruiting | August to December | |
| Associated with | Fringe of forest and dense hedge areas | |
| Habit | Perennial twiner, creeper or semierect shrub with a woody and fragment root stock. Stems purplish, slender and hairless. | |
| Inflorescence | Flowers in subsessile very small and greenish. All parts have milky latex. | |
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