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    1) The document describes a plant species called Turnera ulmifolia that is commonly known as the Yellow Buttercup Flower. 2) It is a weak shrub up to 1.5 meters tall found at the Petronas station in Kota Samarahan, Malaysia with ovate or oblong leaves with distinct teeth and yellow solitary flowers. 3) The fruit is a dehiscent capsule that is 7-10 mm long used traditionally as an intestinal anti-inflammatory.

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    1) The document describes a plant species called Turnera ulmifolia that is commonly known as the Yellow Buttercup Flower. 2) It is a weak shrub up to 1.5 meters tall found at the Petronas station in Kota Samarahan, Malaysia with ovate or oblong leaves with distinct teeth and yellow solitary flowers. 3) The fruit is a dehiscent capsule that is 7-10 mm long used traditionally as an intestinal anti-inflammatory.

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    1) The document describes a plant species called Turnera ulmifolia that is commonly known as the Yellow Buttercup Flower. 2) It is a weak shrub up to 1.5 meters tall found at the Petronas station in Kota Samarahan, Malaysia with ovate or oblong leaves with distinct teeth and yellow solitary flowers. 3) The fruit is a dehiscent capsule that is 7-10 mm long used traditionally as an intestinal anti-inflammatory.

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    UNIVERSITI MALAYSIA

    SARAWAK

    Number: HANS 01
    Collector name: Syarifah Hanisah Bt Syed Mokhtarruddin(22463)
    Date: 27 August 2009.
    Family: Turneraceae.
    Botanical/Scientific name: Turnera ulmifolia Linnaeus.
    Local names: Yellow Buttercup Flower
    Locality: Station Petronas, Kota Samarahan.
    Plant descriptions: Weak shrub to 1.5m; too conspicuous,
    prominent glands on leaf stalk
    Habit: Subshrub, Shrub
    Trunk/stem; twigs: 0.5-2.5mm diameter of the stem. Consist of
    alternative thorns on the stem usually 2-3mm long.
    Leaves: Ovate-elliptic or ovate-oblong, very distinctly dentate-
    serrate, petiole 4–20mm long. Leaflets: lanceolate 1.5-8cm long,
    with apex of leaf blade is acute. Inflorescence types: Scorpioid
    Cyme; The flower is Solitary (bracteolate), axillary; predominantly
    yellow, regular, pedicellate, pedicel 3–8mm long, perianth 2-
    whorled. Calyx 5–8mm long, 5 sepals, all sepals joined. Corolla 25–
    36mm long, 5 petals, all petals free. Stamens 5, adnate to the
    perianth, all alternating with the corolla parts, free of each other.
    Anthers versatile, dehiscing via longitudinal slits. Ovary syncarpous,
    superior, 1 -celled. Ovules numerous. Styles 3, simple. Fruits: The
    fruits is dehiscent, a capsule, non-fleshy, 7–10mm long, to 6mm
    wide. Habitat: Amongst medium trees; occurring on the coast; in
    loam; growing in disturbed natural vegetation, in gardens (and
    roadsides).
    Uses: As an intestinal anti-inflammatory.

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