| Scientific name: | Cardiospermum halicacabum * |
| Family name: | SAPINDACEAE |
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| Local name: | Wel penela |
| Description: | Climbing or subscandent herb with a slender, strongly furrowed, glabrous stem. Leaves biternate, 6-12 cm long, petioles 1.4-4.0 cm long. leaflets ovate oblong or ovate lanciolate, 1.5-3.0X0.6-1.8 cm, margins irregularly dentate or pinnatifid. Inflorescence axillary, long peduncled with a pair of circinnate tendrils at the tip of primary peduncle. Flowers white, about 4 mm diameter, pedicels 1.5-3.0 mm long, sepals free 3-4 mm long, petals obovate, 3X1.5 mm, stamens 8, free, overy obovoid, 2-3 mm long. Capsules subglobose, turbinate or broadly pyriform, 1.2-1.8 cm wide, winged at angles. Seeds 3 one in each locule. |
| Status: | Native |
| Edible parts: | Whole plant, especially the leaves and flowers are used for medicinal purposes |
| Ayurvedic usage: Treatment for-
source by instituteofayurveda.org
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