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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH210 : Justicia quinqueangularis Koen. ex Roxb.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 394  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Scrophulariales
Family : Acanthaceae - Acanthus family
Genus : Justicia L. - water-willow
Species : Justicia quinqeangularis
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : Red List Category - Least Concern  
Plant Family : Acanthaceae  
 
Plant Common Name :
 
Synonym : Ecbolium quinquangulare (Koen. ex Roxb.) Kuntze
Justicia juncea Koen. ex Roxb.
Justicia peploides var. angustifolia T. Anderson
Rostellaria quinquangularis (Koen. ex Roxb.) Nees
Rostellularia quinquangularis (Koen. ex Roxb.) Nees
Description : Decumbent herbs, rooting at nodes, branches slender, 4-angled. Leaves opposite, 1.5-3 x 0.2-0.4 cm, scabrous, linear-oblong or linear-lanceolate, acute at apex, cuneate at base; petiole to 3 mm long. Flowers pink in terminal up to 7 cm long spikes; bracts 4 mm long, linear, obtuse, margins scarious; bracteoles similar to bracts but narrow. Calyx deeply 4-partite, linear, obtuse, margin scarious. Corolla 8 mm long, glabrous; upper lip 4 mm long, 2-fid; lower lip 5 mm long and broad, sub orbicular, minutely 3-lobed. Capsule 8 mm long, oblong, acutely pointed at apex, glabrous; seeds 4, 2 mm across, reticulately rugose.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Leaf juice or water extract given in acidity (Bhogaonkar and Devarkar 2002).
 
Plant's Phytochemicals :
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some unique ethnomedicinal plants of Korkus of Melghat Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) "; Ethnobotany (2002); 14: 16-19 PMID :