Barcode: CAL0000013888

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Family: NYMPHAEACEAE

Scientific Name: Nelumbo nucifera Gaertn.

Collector: V.T. Antony

Country: India

Uses: Carpels are ground into flour which is considered more nutritive than cereals. Rhizomes yield a kind of nutritious arrowroot, which is given to children in diarrhoea and dysentery. Carpels demulcent and nutritive.