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Primula denticulata Wight
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- Local Name:
- Phul Tara.
- Synonym:
- Habit & Habitat:
- An annual herb up to 10-35 cm tall, with stout rhizome, found in temperate, sub-alpine and alpine zones.
- Plant Description:
- Leaves simple, elliptic-lanceolate to strap shaped, obtuse, denticulate, with yellow farina on underside, sheathed at the base with prominent brownish red bud scales. Inflorescence an umbel,capitate,many flowered. Flower mauve to pinkish-blue. Calyx 4-10 mm long, tubular, ovoid. Corolla tube long, throat light yellow. Fruit a capsule, subglobose-obovoid. Seed angular.
- Flowering and Fruiting:
- May-July.
- Harvesting Time:
- June-September.
- Medicinal Value:
- Locally flower extract is used as ophthalmic (eye problems) and hair tonic.
- Part Used:
- Flower and rhizome.
- Occurrence:
- Common at high altitudes.
- Future Perspective:
- Conservation, Collection, Cultivation, Herbal Pharmacy, Allopathic Pharmacy.
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