MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH225 : Leucas mollissima Wall. ex Benth. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 420 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Roadsides, grasslands, streamsides, | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Labiatae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | - | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Leucas decemdentata var. decemdentata |
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| Description : | Herbs erect, 0.5-1.5 m tall. Stems slender, twisted, appressed tomentose-villous, much branched; internodes long. Petiole to 1 cm, densely tomentose; leaf blade ovate, 1.5-4 × 1-2.3 cm, gradually reduced at apex, densely villous-tomentose, corrugate adaxially, greenish white abaxially, base broadly cuneate to cordate, margin crenate-serrate, apex acute. Verticillasters axillary, widely spaced, 2-8(-10)-flowered. Calyx tubular, ca. 6 mm, truncate at mouth, densely pubescent outside, posterior part puberulent, anterior glabrous inside; veins conspicuous, villous; teeth 10, triangular-subulate, subequal, ca. 1 mm. Corolla white, yellowish, or reddish, ca. 1.3 cm, tube ca. 7 mm, puberulent near throat outside, obliquely villous-annulate on middle inside; lower lip spreading, ca. 1.5 × as long as upper lip; middle lobe largest, obcordate; lateral lobes oblong, pilose at base outside, glabrous inside. Nutlets dark brown, ovoid, triquetrous. Fl. May-Oct, fr. Oct-Nov. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Antimalarial and Antimycobacterium Activities | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Schensianol A vanillin Beta-hydroxy propiovanillone (+)-syringaresinol anisofolin A |
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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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