MH031 : Oxalis latifolia Kunth |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : |
68 |
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| Class |
: Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Order |
: Geraniales |
| Family |
: Oxalidaceae - Wood-Sorrel family |
| Genus |
: Oxalis L. - woodsorrel |
| Species |
: Oxalis latifolia Kunth - broadleaf woodsorrel |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : |
Chikhaldara , Kolkaz, growing in shade rest house compounds |
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| Plant Category : |
Herbs |
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| Plant's Current Status : |
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| Plant Family : |
Oxalidaceae |
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| Plant Common Name : |
K-Khatta Zara,, garden pink-sorrel, broadleaf woodsorrel, khati-buti; phiphru; tipatia weed |
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| Synonym : |
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| Description : |
Plants glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Bulbils clustered or solitary and arising from the stolons. Leaflets 15—40 mm long, 30—70 mm broad, triangular in outline, glabrous. Scapes 1—4, up to 30 cm long, glabrous to sparsely pubescent, slender. Flowers many, subumbellate. Pedicel 1-1.8 cm long, glabrous. Sepals 3.5 mm long, lanceolate, tip with a reddish brown callus. Petals c. 10 mm long, pink. Both long and short filaments strigose; shorter filaments equal in length to the styles. Fl. Per. June-August. |
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| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : |
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| Reference : |
~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :
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