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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH185 : Mecardonia procumbens (Mill.) Small

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 359  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Lamiales
Family : Plantaginaceae
Genus : Mecardonia Ruiz & Pav. - mecardonia
Species : Mecardonia procumbens (Mill.) Small
Plant Location in Melghat : On Chikhaldara, Kolkaz, Sipna river bed  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Plantaginaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Baby Jump Up, Bacopa, Mecardonia, makardana
 
Synonym : Mecardonia dianthera Pennell
Mecardonia peduncularis (Benth.) Small
Mecardonia tenuis Small
Mecardonia vandellioides auct. non (Kunth) Pennell.
Description : Diffuse herbs; stem 4-angled. Leaves 1-1.5 x 0.4-0.9 cm, ovate-lanceolate, base acute, margin crenate-serrate, apex acute, penninerved, subsessile. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicles to 1 cm long, bractioles 2, c. 4 mm long, oblong. Calyx deeply 5-partite, lobes unequal; outer 3 c. 6 x 3 mm, ovate-lanceolate; inner 2 c. 4 x 1 mm, narrower. Corolla yellow, c. 7 mm long, obscurely 2-lipped, lobes unequal. Stamens 4, didynamous; anther cells stipitate. Stigma lamellate. Capsule to 6 x 2 mm, oblong-cylindric, 2-valved, included in the calyx. Seeds with testa reticulate.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Wounds
 
Plant's Phytochemicals :
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :