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  3. ›flowering plants
  4. ›Dicots
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  6. ›gentian family
  7. ›gentian tribe
  8. ›dwarf, fringed, and green gentians
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Heart-Leaf Swertia
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Heart-Leaf Swertia

Swertia cordata

Swertia cordata is an important medicinal plant of the family Gentianaceae and is found distributed throughout temperate regions of the Himalaya. The species used in various ethnomedicinal systems and as an adulterant of Swertia chirayita.

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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 934869.