Product Description
The plant species S. acidum Roxb. Voigt is a member of the Asclepiadaceae family, locally known as Khair, Khimp, Khurasni tanto, Art thor, Soma, and Somavalli. In English, Moon plant and Moon creeper, and in Hindi, Somlata used in the Indian traditional system of medicine. This review focused on different properties of S. acidum Roxb. Voigt a multifaceted plant.Stem cylindrical, 3-7 mm in diameter, green, glabrous, internodes 10-20 cm long. Flowers sweet-scented in sessile many-flowered terminal umbels. Pedicels 6-12 mm long, pubescent. Bracts minute, linear-lanceolate. Sepals 5, 1-1.5 mm long, subacute, margin membranous, glandular inside near the base. Corolla campanulate, pale greenish white, divided almost to the base, lobes c.5 mm long, ovate-oblong, subacute. Outer corona crenately 10-lobed, lobes of the inner corona thick, fleshy obtuse, longer than the staminal column and concealing the anther. Staminal column very short. Pollen-masses compressed, clavate. Follicles 10-13 cm x 8 mm, lanceolate, tapering at both ends, slightly diverging when 2 together. Seeds 3-6 mm long, flattened ovate. Coma 1.8 cm long.