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Pergularia
Sign in to savePergularia is a genus of the botanical family Apocynaceae. Pergularia daemia is a perennial twinning herb that grows along the roadsides of India and tropical and subtropical regions in South Asia, Africa, and Australia.
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GENUS
- KingdomPlantae
- PhylumTracheophyta
- ClassMagnoliopsida
- OrderGentianales
- FamilyApocynaceae
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Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 98
- With media
- 67
- Family
- Apocynaceae
- Collections
- B, NY, OSW, MICH, MO
- Recorded in
- Benin, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Kenya, Cameroon, Mozambique, Indonesia, Yemen
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Pergularia is a genus of the botanical family Apocynaceae. Pergularia daemia is a perennial twinning herb that grows along the roadsides of India and tropical and subtropical regions in South Asia, Africa, and Australia.
Pharmacological activities include antiinflammatory, hepatoprotective, anticancer, antidiabetic, antioxidant, antibacterial, antifungal, analgesic, anti-infertility and central nervous system depressant activity. Species formerly included Moved to other genera – Cionura, Marsdenia, Strophanthus, Telosma, Vincetoxicum (syn. Tylophora), Vallaris
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