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Acantholimon lycopodioides (Girard) Boiss. Plumbaginaceae

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Acantholimon lycopodioides (Girard) Boiss.
PLUMBAGINACEAE
Wahid Hussain, Rainer W. Bussmann, and
Narel Y. Paniagua-Zambrana
Synonyms
Acantholimon lycopodioides (Girard) Boiss: Statice lycopodioides Girard
Local Names
Acantholimon lycopodioides: Trans-Himalaya: Longze; Ladakh: Lonze,
Longzey
Botany and Ecology
Acantholimon lycopodioides:Shrublets, densely pulvinate. Cushions 30100 cm
wide. Leaf blade glaucous, linear, (1)1.530.10.2(0.3) cm, rigid, glabrous,
apex shortly awned. Inorescences unbranched, 34(5) cm, densely pubescent;
spikes dense, distichous, with 58 spikelets; spikelets 2 or 3 owered; bracts broadly
ovate, 45 mm, pubescence very short; rst bractlet 67 mm, broadly membranous,
W. Hussain
Department of Botany, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, Pakistan
R. W. Bussmann (*)
Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State
University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Saving Knowledge, La Paz, Bolivia
e-mail: rainer.bussmann@iliauni.edu.ge
N. Y. Paniagua-Zambrana
Department of Ethnobotany, Institute of Botany and Bakuriani Alpine Botanical Garden, Ilia State
University, Tbilisi, Georgia
Herbario Nacionál de Bolivia, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés, La Paz, Bolivia
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R. Kunwar et al. (eds.), Ethnobotany of the Himalayas, Ethnobotany of Mountain
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pubescence very short, apex with a very short awn. Calyx 68 mm, funnelform, tube
densely velvety between ribs; limb white with red-purple veins, veins pubescent or
glabrescent. Corolla pink to pinkish. Flowering JulyAugust, fruiting August
September (Wu et al. 19942013) (Fig. 1).
Local Medicinal Uses
Acantholimon lycopodioides:is used to treat cardiac disorders (Gairola et al. 2014;
Kala et al. 2005a,b), also used as abortifacient and for muscular pain (Gairola et al.
2014).
Acantholimon hohenackeri:A decoction of owers is used for diarrhea. A decoc-
tion of owers is used for the normalization of blood pressure and in cases of allergy
(Mehdiyeva et al. 2017; Bussmann 2017).
Local Handicraft and Other Uses
Acantholinum hirsutum serves as fodder for livestock (Ari et al. 2015).
References
AriS,TemelM,Kargıoğlu M, Konuk M. Ethnobotanical survey of plants used in Afyonkarahisar-
Turkey. J Ethnobiol Ethnomed. 2015;11:84. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13002-015-0067-6.
Bussmann RW, editor. Ethnobotany of the Caucasus. Cham: Springer International Publishing;
2017. XXVII, 746p. (ISBN 978-3-319-49411-1)
Gairola S, Sharma J, Singh Bedi Y. A cross-cultural analysis of Jammu, Kashmir and Ladakh
(India) medicinal plant use. J Ethnopharmacol. 2014;155:92586.
Fig. 1. Acantholimon
lycopodioides
(Plumbagonaceae), Pakistan.
(Photo Wahid Hussain)
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