MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH218 : Acrocephalus hispidus (L.) Nicolson & Sivad. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 410 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Koktu valley | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Lamiaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Chipi, Hairy Gomphrena, Meenangani | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Acrocephalus capitatus (Roth) Benth. Acrocephalus indicus (Burm. f.) O. Kuntze Gomphrena hispida L. Prunella indica Burm. f. |
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| Description : | Annual. Stems 5-30 cm, usually much branched, rather slender, quadrangular, with a sparse indumentum of short eglandular hairs. Leaves narrowly to broadly elliptic, c. 2-4 x 1 cm, with a thin indumentum, mainly on nerves, of short white hairs, finely gland-dotted below, crenulate, petiolate. Inflorescence a globose-ovoid head, 5-15 x 5-9 mm. Bracts quadrate-rhombic, sub-tending 4-6 flowers. Calyx bilabiate, c. 1.5 mm in flower, with a thickish indumentum of white eglandular hairs at base of tube, with or without sessile oil globules, teeth ciliate-fringed; calyx in fruit c.4 mm with an oblong, apically rounded upper lip and 4 narrow triangular lower teeth. Corolla c. 2.5 mm, pale pink to purple, shortly 5-lobed. Stamens 4, projecting ± straight for-ward, included within corolla. Thecae globose, unilocular. Nutlets 0.7 x 0.4 mm, pale brown, slightly mucilaginous on wetting. Fl. Per.: October-November. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Cold, sore throat, expectora | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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