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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH197 : Dicliptera verticillata (Forssk.) C. Christensen

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 381  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Scrophulariales
Family : Acanthaceae - Acanthus family
Genus : Dicliptera Juss. - foldwing
Species : Dicliptera verticillata
Plant Location in Melghat : Bori, Dhargad  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : UNCOMMON  
Plant Family : Acanthaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Adhatoda hyssopifolia Medic.
Adhatoda jalappiifolia Buchoz ex Steud.
Dianthera verticillata Forssk.
Diapedium cuspidatum (Vahl) Kuntze
Diapedium umbellatum (Vahl) Kuntze
Diapedium verticillatum (Forssk.) Kuntze
Dicliptera micranthes Nees
Dicliptera ocymoides (Lam.) Juss.
Dicliptera spinulosa Hochst. ex K. Balkwill
Dicliptera umbellata Juss.
Hypoestes umbellata F. G. Dietr.
Justicia cuspidata Vahl
Justicia ocymoides Lam.
Justicia umbellata Vahl
Justicia verticillata (Forssk.) Steud.
Description : A much branched, suberect to procumbent, annual herb, twigs hairy on the angles. Leaves on 2-3 cm long petioles; lamina ovate or elliptic, 3.5-8 x 1.5-4 cm, glabrous or ± hairy, basally rounded to attenuate, entire, acuminate. Rowe pink, spotted with purple, c. 4.5 mm long, in dense axillary globose fascicle bracts unequal, enveloping the flowers, obovate-oblong, 6-7 mm long, scabrous on both sides, lower part of margins densely ciliate and scarious, upper half green, apex cuspidate; bracteoles linear-lanceolate, 4-5 mm long, hairy. Calyx 5-lobed to near the base, lobes linear-subulate, 3-3.5 mm long, hairy, acute. Corolla pubescent externally, tube narrow, upper lip smaller than the lower. Capsule ellipsoid, c. 4 mm long, 4-seeded, hairy at the subacute tip. Seeds orbiculate, c. 1 mm across, tuberculate-echinulate. Fl. Per.: August-November.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : malaria and Diarrhea
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : -
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :