MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH153 : Heliotropium supinum L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 314 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In drying ponds, shallow depressions, stream and river beds | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Boraginaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Dwarf Heliotrope, Prostrate Heliotrope, Spreading Heliotrope | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Piptoclaina supina Heliotropium ambiguum DC. Heliotropium capense Sw. ex Lehm. Heliotropium coromandelianum Raddi ex DC. Heliotropium europaeum Forssk. Heliotropium hirsutum E. D. Clarke Heliotropium malabaricum Retz. Lithospermum heliotropoides Forssk. Piptoclaina malabarica (Retz.) G. Don. |
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| Description : | Prostrate branched annual. Branches brown-tomentose with dense appressed hairs up to 1 mm long. Leaves petiolate, greyish white with dense hairs; petiole up to 15 mm long. Lamina 10-20 x 5-12 mm, ovate to obovate or elliptic, cuneate to ± oblique, entire-undulate, obtuse, nerves impressed on upper surface. Inflorescence lateral and terminal, 2-7 cm long; flowers uniseriate. Calyx deciduous, ± 2.5 mm long, up to 5 mm in fruit, ¼th partite into ± obtuse lobes, densely hairy. Corolla tube 34 mm long, retroresely hairy to the outside, glabrous within lobes oblong, shallow, erect. Anthem c. 1 mm long, narrowed towards the apex, attached c. 1.5 mm from the corolla base. Stigma c. 0.6 mm long, conical; stigmatic ring prominent. Style ± stigma length, with few retrorse hairs. Ovary glabrous. Fruit globose, enclosed in the persistent calyx. Nutlets c. 2.5 mm long, ovoid in outline, glabrous, back rugulose and minutely tubercied. Fl. Per.: December-January. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The pulped plant is mixed with water and applied to tumours. The pyrrolizidine alkaloids heliotrine and lasiocarpine have been isolated, and extracts have been tested as a control agent for Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, a chickpea disease, with limited success. eczema. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Heliotrine Lasiocarpine |
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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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