Occurrence (Special Areas) :
Indroda Park, Ayurvedic Udyan, Van Chetana Kendra
About Leptadenia reticulata Plant :
Habit : A twiner on the hedges.
Leaves : Small, coriaceous, ovate, acute, base rounded.
Inflorescence : Umbellate Cymes.
Flowers :
Small, greenish-yellow.
Calyx 5-lobed.
Corolla rotate, lobes 5, ovate-oblong, with revolute margins, hairy, often with a hairy process on the inner face near the tip.
Corolline corona of 5 truncate, fleshy lobes, staminal-corona minute, annular, close to the staminal column, anthers without appendages, pollinia ovoid, caudicles long.
Fruit : Follicles smooth, turgid, tapering to a short curved beak, seeds comose.
Flowering and Fruiting Time : June-August
Significance :
The plant is stimulant and tonic and the leaves are applied on ringworm.