MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH229 : Ocimum canum Sims. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 424 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Common | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Labiatae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Ran - Tulas | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Ocimum americanum auct. |
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| Description : | Perennial, much branched, 30-60 cm. Stems with simple, retrorse or spreading, white, eglandular hairs. Leaves elliptic to ovate, 3-3 x 1-1.5 cm, subentire or finely crenulate above, acute, cuneale, glabrescent or sparsely pilose, gland-dotted on both surfaces; petiole 1-2 cm. Verticillasters 5-16, clearly separated or contiguous above, 6-10-flowered. Bracts 2-3 mm. Calyx c. 2.5 mm in flower, 4-5.5 mm long in fruit; indumentum in flower of long white eglandular hairs mainly at base of calyx, glabrescent; tube villous within; fruiting pedicels c. 3.5 mm, erect-adpressed to axis, apically reflexed. Corolla white, c. 5 mm, pilose. Stamens exserted, glabrous or pilose, toothed at base or not. Nutlets c. 1.5 x 0.8- 1.3 mm, narrow oblong, dark brown or black, densely white mucilaginous on wetting. Fl. Per.: ± throughout the year. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Antibiotic | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | camphor citral terpinen-4-ol alpha-terpineol methyl trans-cinnamate Geraniol Geranial Germacrene-D |
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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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