MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH093 : Borreria articularis (L.f.) F.N.Williams |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 224 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In stream & river beds,fields,on open hill slopes among grasses | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Rubiaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | - | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Spermacoce articularis L.f. Spermacoce flexuosa Lour. Spermacoce longicaulis R.Br. ex G.Don. Spermacoce ramosissima R.Br. ex Wall., nom. nud. Spermacoce scabra Willd. |
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| Description : | Erect-procumbent perennial herb; stem woody at base, ± rounded or sharply-obscurely quadrangular, pubescent, angles often scabridulous. Leaves 2-3 x 0.8-1.2 cm, elliptic, or elliptic-lanceolate, obtuse-acute, hispid above, glabrous or hispid on nerves beneath, margin flexuous or flat, with 3-5 pairs of lateral nerves; stipules densely pubescent, c. 2 mm long, bristled. Inflorescence axillary, few-flowered. Flowers sessile. Calyx 4-lobed, lobes linear-lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm long. Corolla pink, blue or whitish, campanulate-infundibuliform; tube 8-12 mm long, throat hairy; lobes elliptic, acute, hairy, c. 2 mm long. Stamens inserted at the throat of corolla-tube; anthers oblong. Ovary 2-loculed, 2 ovules in each locule; style equalling the corolla-tube, filiform; stigma. 2-lobed, papillose. Capsule 3-3.5 mm long, densely hairy at base, ovoid or ellipsoid. Seeds brown, oblong-ellipsoid with a ventral groove, 2.5-3 x 1 mm, testa minutely reticulate or granulate. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Plant is used in ophthalmia, inflammation of eye and gums, blindness, earache, fever, spleen complaints, pimples, sores and dysentery. A decoction of the root is used as an alterative. Seeds are used in Diarrhea and dysentery in Khagrachari. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Beta-sitosterol ursolic acid d-mannitol Seeds contain isorhamnetin |
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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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