CAMPUS HERBS

Description: Aerva lanata (L.), also known as mountain knotgrass or woolly aerva, is a species of flowering plant in the Amaranthaceae family. It is native to various regions of Africa,Asia, and Australia.This plant is a perennial herb that typically grows in dry and arid habitats such as sandy soils, rocky areas, and wastelands. It has erect stems covered with dense woolly hairs, giving it a distinctive appearance.The leaves are simple,alternate,and lanceolate, also covered with woolly hairs. Aerva lanata produces small, inconspicuous flowers arranged in clusters at the tips of the stems.

Description: Aloe vera is a short-stemmed shrubby aloe, frequently suckering and forming dense clumps. Leaves: The leaves are succulent, erect, forming a dense rosette. The leaves are greyish green, growing to about 50 cm long, with margins that are pinkish with many small spines. The leaf surfaces are sometimes marked with white flecks or spots. The flowers are yellow, tubular with anthers and stigma protruding. The flowers are borne in cylindrical racemes on a branched panicle.

Description: Biophytum sensitivum, also known as the sensitive plant or Little tree plant, is a small flowering plant.These are annuals which grow upto 25 cm in height. The base is woody. Stem is slender to robust, simple and at the apex is covered by dense thick hair. There are upto 13 leaves, the rachis is slender, moderately covered by dense thick hair, the leaflets are 6-14 pairs, the leaflet blades are obovate-oblong base is almost symmetric, usually smooth and sometimes covered by trichomes. There are several flowers on the umbels, the peduncle is 2-7 cm and is subequal to the length of leaf.

Description: Technically an evergreen tree-like herb, not a true tree due to its lack of woody tissue. Grows 2-10 meters tall with a single, unbranched hollow stem. Large, spirally arranged leaves clustered near the top of the stem. The leaves are deeply lobed with a palm-like appearance and can reach up to 75 cm in diameter.

Description: It's an annual herb that typically grows 2-5 feet tall with erect, green, angular branches. The leaves are soft, dark green on top and lighter underneath, with an alternate arrangement and a narrowly oblong or wedge shape.The bright yellow flowers bloom in loose clusters at the ends of the stems. The thin-walled pods grow spaced out along the stems and turn dark purple to black when ripe. Each pod contains around 18-20 small brown seeds.

Description: Oldenlandia corymbosa L., commonly known as clustered millet graines or oldenlandia, is a species of flowering plant in the Rubiaceae family. It is native to tropical and subtropical regions worldwide, including parts of Africa, Asia, Australia, and the Americas. It has small white flowers and opposite, lance-shaped leaves.

Description: Phyllanthus amarus Schumach. & Thonn., commonly known as Phyllanthus or stonebreaker, is a small annual herbaceous plant belonging to the Phyllanthaceae family. Phyllanthus amarus is a slender, herbaceous plant that typically grows up to about 30 to 60 centimeters in height. The leaves are small, alternate, and elliptical in shape, with smooth margins. They are arranged in a spiral pattern along the stems.The flowers are tiny and inconspicuous, greenish-yellow to reddish in color, and often clustered in the leaf axils. The fruit of Phyllanthus amarus is a small, spherical capsule containing seeds

Description: It is commonly known as black pepper, is a flowering vine in the Piperaceae family cultivated for its fruit, the peppercorn, which is dried and used as a spice and seasoning.Stout woody climbers, climbing up to 8 m high. Rooting at nodes, glabrous.