MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH223 : Leucas cephalotes (Roth) Spreng. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 418 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Labiatae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Head Leucas, bishkhapru, deldona, dhurpisag, goma, goma madhupati, gomo, guma, dronapushpi, tumba, deokhumba, deokumba, kumbha, shetad, shetvad, chhatraka, chhatrani, chitrak-shupa, chitrakshupa, chitrapathrika, peruntumpai, thumbai, tumbay-keere, pedda tummi, do na i me tog | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Leucas capitata Desf. Phlomis cephalotes Roth. |
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| Description : | an annual herb with stems erect, unbranched or with few branches, 10-50 cm, leafy, hairy with spreading and adpressed retrorse hairs. Leaves are narrow oblong-elliptic, cuneate, nearly entire to slightly toothed, up to 8 x 2 cm, with long and short eglandular hairs denser below. Leaf-stalk on lower leaves is nearly-absent to about 5 mm. Flowers are borne in 1-2 distant spherical dense whorls on branches, 2-3.5 cm in diameter, up to 50-flowered. Bracts are numerous, imbricate, narrow, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, equalling calyces, ciliate on margins. Sepal cup is 1.2-1.5 cm, tubular, slightly curved, clearly nerved, with a slightly oblique mouth, distinctly hairy at throat, with eglandular and sometimes also with very short glandular hairs; teeth 10, subequal, shortly triangular, mucronulate, about 1 mm. Flowers are white, about 1.5 cm, upper lip bearded; lower lip clearly longer than upper. Nutlets are narrow oblong, bluntly trigonous, about 3 x 2 mm. Flowering: July-October. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | treatment for snake bite; The juice extracted from leaves is used to cure skin problems. According to Ayurveda, the plant is mild stimulant and diaphoretic and used in fevers and coughs. The flowers mixed in honey is used as domestic remedy for cough and colds. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Labellenic acid beta-sitosterol oleanolic acid 7-oxositosterol 7-oxostigmasterol 7alpha-hydroxy stigmasterol stigmasterol 5-hydroxy-7,4-dimethoxy flavone pillion gonzalitosin I tricin cosmosin apigenin-7-O-beta-D-(6-O-p-coumaryl)glucopyranoside anisofolin A luteolin |
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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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