Wel Kahambiliya
Scientific name: Tragia hispida
Family name: EUPHORBIACEAE
Local name: Wel kahambiliya (වැල් කහඹිලියා)
Conservation status: LC (NCS)-2012
Description: Perennial, climbing or twining herb, hispid with stinging hairs, moecious; stem elongate slender. Leaves long-petiolate, lamina 5.5-8 x 1.25-4 cm, elongate-deltoid, shallowly cordate at base, more or less regularly serrate; petiole 1.25-3.5 cm long. Inflorescences in terminal, axillary, androgynous racemes; racemes 3.5-5.5 cm long. Flowers apetalous. Fruit about 4 mm diameter. Seeds 4 mm diameter, globose, dark brown.
Status: Native
Edible parts: None
