MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH179 : Kickxia ramosissima (L.) Dumort. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 353 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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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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