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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH179 : Kickxia ramosissima (L.) Dumort.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 353  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Scrophulariales
Family : Scrophulariaceae - Figwort family
Genus : Kickxia Dumort. - cancerwort
Species : Kickxia ramosissima (L.) Dumort.
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Scrophulariaceae  

 
Plant Common Name : Branched Cancerwort, Branched Fluellen, Banwel
 
Synonym : Kickxia ramosissima (Wall.) Janchen
Linaria ramosissima Wall.
Elatinoides ramosissima (Walter) Kuntze
Nanorrhinum ramosissimum (Wall.) Betsche


Description : Perennial prostrate herbs, slightly pubescent. Leaves variable, shallowly 3-lobed, to 2 x 1 cm, acute, upper leaves hastate, membranous; petiole 1 cm, filiform. Flowers solitary, axillary; pedicel filiform, 1.5 to 2 cm; calyx lobes 4 mm, linear, imbricate; corolla spurred at base, spur 1.5 mm, bilabiate, 7 mm long, upper 3-lobed, lower 2-lobed, yellow; stamens didynamous, included; ovary 4 mm, stigma minute, ovary globose. Capsule many seeded.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : It is used for a number of ailments, for instance as diuretic, against kidney stones, fever and rheumatism and during management of snake and scorpion bites; diabetic and inflammatory conditions
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : d-mannitol
Kickxiasine
Mussaenosidic acid
Mussaenoside
Linarioside
Pectolinarigenin
Pectolinarin

Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :