Artemisia absinthium L.


Synonym : Absinthium officinale Brot.
Artemisia absinthia St.-Lag.
Artemisia inodora Mill.
Artemisia pendul
Bangla Name : -
English Name : -
Family : Asteraceae
Disease : Constipation, Skin Diseases.
Description : Perennial, aromatic, densely appressed silky-canescent, herb with vertical rootstock. Stem terete, mildly striate. Basal and lower stem leaves long petioled, petiole up to 10 cm long, lamina broadly ovate, upper and middle stem leaves short petioled or subsessile with fewer, mostly lanceolate, ± acute lobes; uppermost in floral region sessile. Capitula heterogamous, short peduncled, depressed globose.Involucre 3-4-seriate, outermost phyllaries linear, green, appressed canescent; inner ovate to broadly ovate-orbicular, mostly scarious. Receptacle ± flat, densely white hairy. Florets numerous, yellow; marginal florets female, 20-25, fertile; disc-florets many, bisexual, fertile, with campanulate, 5-toothed, glabrous corolla.Cypselas ± oblong-cylindric, narrowed to the base, smooth, with oblique corolla attachment.
Distribution : -
Chemical Constituents : Essential oil known as Absinth or Wormwood oil. Artemisetin, absinthin, artabasin, myrcene, a-pinene, thujyl alcohol and thujyl acetate.
Uses : This plan is used in Constipation, Skin Diseases.
Habit : Herb