Dear Members,Am posting a few photographs of S.loeselii growing wild on dry land in Srinagar. It is a very common medicinally important weed and its local Kashmiri name is "Tsari Lashij" meaning Sparrow's Broom. The compact inflorescense and the seed pods resemble a broom. The seeds of a closely related species S.irio with the Hindi name "Khub Kalan" are important in Unani medicine and supposed to be a very effective medicine for small pox, measles and all sorts of fevers.
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