Chamber Bitter - Phyllanthus urinaria

Common Name :	Chamber Bitter, Common leaf-flower, Shatterstone.
Botanical Name :	Phyllanthus urinaria
Family :	Phyllanthaceae
Bengali Name :	Hajar moni.
Photo Taken :	Bangladesh

In some countries they call it as Leafflower. It has other common names such as Chamber Bitter, Common leaf-flower, Shatterstone, Gripeweed, etc. Botanical name of the plant is Phyllanthus urinaria. It belongs to the plant family Phyllanthaceae. This plant is native to Asia and the tropical region. This plant is known as Hajar Moni in Bangladesh.





Chamber Bitter (Phyllanthus urinaria) is a very small annual herb plant, but can reach up to 2 feet sometimes. It doesn't grow as a bush, but it is found around other bushes. This plant can tolerate shades, so can grow easily inside other bushes. It has small flowers just under the stem of the leaf. Each leaf stem holds up to 15 very small flowers. The fruit is very small too and looks like a small ball. Possibly this is the reason to call this plant as Hajar Moni (হাজার মনি). If you observe the plant hastily you'd be dodged by identifying this as Mimosa plant.





Chamber Bitter (Phyllanthus urinaria) plant is highly useful to do treatment for lot of urine and kidney related diseases, that's why it has the species name urinaria. So far the produced medicines from the extracts of this plant have no side effects. If you search in internet you'd find tons of medicine names those are made based on this plant.





Photos of Chamber Bitter (Phyllanthus urinaria) were taken from the following location of Bangladesh. In Bangladesh this plant is known as Hajar moni (হাজার মনি).
1. July 2011: Rangamati.


This article has written by Lonely Traveler,
for the blog http://icflora.blogspot.com/