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'''Indravaruni''' is a perennial plant with a woody, tuberous rootstock from which grow long trailing or climbing stems. The plant has long been valued for its medicinal uses and is cultivated in some regions for this purpose.
==Uses==
{{Uses|HypoglycemicConstipation}}, {{Uses|ConstipationFungal infection}}, {{Uses|Fungal Bacterial infection}}, {{Uses|Bacterial infectionInflammation}}, {{Uses|InflammationLarvicidal}}, {{Uses|LarvicidalCold}}, {{Uses|Cold and coughCough}}
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==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Simple|alternateAlternate|Tendrils simple, rarely bifid, slender, glabrous. Leaves alternate, elongate-ovate in outline, 10-60 (-110) mm long, 8-55 (-66) mm broad, distinctly scabrid-hairy beneath, smooth except on the nerves above, palmately deeply 3-5-lobed, ultimate lobes pinnately lobulate with central lobe longest, long-ovate in outline; petiole rather densely rough-hairy}}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Unisexual|axillaryAxillary|yellowYellow||Male flowers on long pedicels; calyx campanulate, c. 9 (4-8) mm long, lobes c. 5 mm broad; corolla pale yellow, ovate-acute, c. 8 mm long and c. 5 mm broad. Female flowers on longer pedicels than male, receptacle-tube short, lobes lanceolate, c. 5 mm long; ovary hairy, subglobose or obovate.}}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|Pepo|5 cm across|globoseGlobose, smooth, longitudinally green striped, 5-7 cm in diameter, eipcarp thin, filled with a dry spongy very bitter pulp||seeds Seeds numerous, ovate-oblong, yellowish brown, not margined, c. 6 mm long and c. 3 mm broad.}}
===Other features===
<ref name="Chemical composition">[http://gbpihedenvis.nic.in/PDFs/Glossary_Medicinal_Plants_Springer.pdf Chemical composition]</ref>
<ref name="Leaf">[http://FLOWERING PLANTS OF KERALA VER.2Kappatagudda - A Repertoire of Medicianal Plants of Gadag by Yashpal Kshirasagar and Sonal Vrishni, NPage No. Sasidharan BOTANIC DESCRIPTION]124</ref>
<ref name="Common names">[http://envis.frlht.org/bot_search Vernacular names]</ref>
<ref name="Cultivation details">[https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/duke_energy/Citrullus_colocynthis.html Cultivation details]</ref>
==External Links==
* [https://easyayurveda.com/2013/01/17/colocynth-citrullus-colocynthis-uses-dosage-side-effects/Citrullus colocynthis on easyayurveda.com]* [http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Citrullus+colocynthisCitrullus colocynthis on theferns.info]
[[Category:Herbs]]
