MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH188 : Stemodia viscosa Roxb. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 362 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Scrophulariaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Sticky Blue Rod, Satmodi, Nukachuni, Bodasaramamu, Gunta Kaamin, | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Stemodia arvensis Steud. Stemodia coromandelina Heyne ex Wall. Stemodia maritima Heyne ex Wall. Stemodiacra viscosa (Roxb.) Kuntze |
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| Description : | Glandular-hairy herb; branchlets ascending. Leaves decussate or ternate, elliptic-oblong, to 3 x 1 cm, pubescent, base auriculate, margin serrate, apex acute; leaves of flowering shoots diminutive. Flowers axillary, to 3 per node, forming a leafy, terminal raceme; bracts and bracteoles present; pedicel to 1 cm. Calyx-lobes 5, linear-lanceolate, subequal, pilose. Corolla blue to violet, 6 x 4 mm; tube 1 cm; lobes 2+3, unequal, upper larger. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; filament pairs filiform, similar, 3.5 and 5 mm; anthers disjunct, unequal. Ovary imperfectly 4-celled; style dilated at base; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule oblong, 7 mm, septicidal and loculicidal; valves 2; seeds oblong. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | cold, flu, | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Beta-caryophyllene endo-fenchol alpha-humulene alpha-cadinene scutellarein |
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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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