Gymnema
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Gymnema is a genus in the family Asclepiadaceae
containing 119 species.
Asclepiadaceae
According to APG II, the Asclepiadaceae is a former plant family now treated as a subfamily in the Apocynaceae...
containing 119 species.
Selected species
- Gymnema acuminatum Wall.
- Gymnema affine Decne.
- Gymnema albidum Decne.
- Gymnema albiflorum Costantin
- Gymnema alterniflorum (Lour.) Merr.
- Gymnema attenuatum Wall.
- Gymnema inodorum
- Gymnema khandalense
- Gymnema lactiferumGymnema lactiferumGymnema lactiferum , is a species of climbing perennial shrub native to the East Indian Archipelago. In Sanskrit it is called ksirakakoli. James Emerson Tennent described the use of the plant in his account of Ceylon , and wrote it was "evidently a form of the G. sylvestre"...
- Gymnema sylvestreGymnema sylvestreGymnema sylvestre is a herb native to the tropical forests of southern and central India where it has been used as a natural treatment for diabetes for nearly two millennia.-Description:...