Common names (English):

Air plant, Good luck leaf, Hawaiian Air Plant, Miracle leaf

Local name (Kannada):

Habit: Herb

Distribution:

Native to Tropical Africa.

Use: Medicinal

Description:

Subsucculent herbs, to 50 cm tall. Leaves decussate, simple, elliptic-ovate. Inflorescence a cymose panicle; flowers pendulous. Corolla greenish, 8-folded, glandular within. Stamens 8, inserted above the constriction of corolla; hypogynous scales 4. Follicle enclosed within the reddish calyx.

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