MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH124 : Lagascea mollis Cav. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 264 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Throughout common among tall grasses of forest undergrowth,on bunds of fields, in hedges, esppecially around villages | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Compositae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Phuli, Silk Leaf, Acuate, American softhead, Jharwad | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Nocca mollis (Cav.) Jacq. Lagascea campestris Gardner Lagascea kunthiana Gardner Lagascea parvifolia Klatt |
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| Description : | Erect, annual, white-pubescent herbs. Leaves opposite or alternate, 1.5-4.5 x 1-2 cm, ovate or elliptic-lanceolate, base attenuate, margins distantly serrate, apex acuminate, densely whitish pubescent on both surfaces; petiole to 2 cm long. Capitula 1-flowered, aggregated in solitary, terminal, long-peduncled, disciform glomerule, 1-1.5 cm across. Involucre c. 4 mm long, tubular-campanulate, lobes purplish. Flowers white, bisexual, c. 4 mm long, tubular-campanulate; lobes 5, ovate, acute. Stamens 5, included. Ovary oblong. Achenes c. 3 mm long, compressed or 3-angled, black, weakly ribbed. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Leaf paste is applied on cuts or injuries. Plant ash used on cuts. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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