Aristolochia indica

Aristolochia indica L.

Family     :Aristolochiaceae

Common Name  :ഈശ്വരമൂലി(Mal)

        ईशरमूल(Hin)

                                 Indian Birthwort (Eng) 

Indian Birthwort is a twining perennial herb, with branchlets slender. Leaves are 3.5-8 x 2-3.5 cm, ovate-lanceshaped or ovate-oblong, base flat, tip pointed to tapering, hairless; 3-5-nerved at base; leaf-stalk up to 2.5 cm long. Flowers are borne in few-flowered racemes in leaf-axils. Flower-stalks are about 7 mm long, elongate in fruits. Bracts are about 1.5 mm long, lanceshaped. Flower tube is dull brown, 1-1.5 cm long, bulbous base 3-5 mm across, green; limb 2-2.5 cm long, linear-oblong, rounded at tip, greyish-green. 

Twining perennial herbs; branchlets slender. Leaves simple, alternate, 3.5-8 x 2-3.5 cm, ovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, base truncate, apex acute to acuminate, glabrous; 3-5-nerved at base; petiole to 2.5 cm long. Flowers in few-flowered axillary racemes; pedicels c. 7 mm long, elongate in fruits; bracts c. 1.5 mm long, lanceolate. Perianth tube dull brown, 1-1.5 cm long, bulbous base 3-5 mm across, green; limb 2-2.5 cm long, linear-oblong, rounded at apex, greyish-green. Stamens 6. Ovary c. 2 mm long; stigmas 6, fleshy. Capsule 1.5-3 x 1.5-2 cm, globose-pyriform, 6-ridged, dehiscing from the base, after dehiscence parachute-like; seeds 4-6 mm across, broadly deltoid, flat, winged.