MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH254 : Acalypha malabarica Müll.Arg. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 454 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Euphorbiaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Malabar Copper leaf | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Ricinocarpus malabaricus (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze |
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| Description : | Annual herbs. Levaes alternate, 3-5 x 2.5-3.5 cm, ovate, acute, margins toothed, hispd on both sides; basally 3-nerved; petioles often longer than the lamina. All spikes axillary and sessile, short, up to 3 cm long, androgynous, finely pubescent. Male flowers ca 0.5 mm across, very few, clustered near the apex of spikes. Female flowers 2-2.5 mm across, 6-8 along the basal portion of the spike; bracts alternate, foliaceous, subcampanulate, funnel-shaped, folded, ca 5 mm across, shallowly toothed, bordered with long gland-tipped hairs along peripheral portion and margin, pilose, hairy or nearly glabrous, roughly coriaceous, gland-dotted, many-nerved. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Seebaluck R, Gurib-Fakim A and Mahomoodally F; "Medicinal plants the genus Acalypha (Euphorbiaceae) - A review of their ethnopharmacology and phytochemistry"; J Ethnopharmacol (2015); 159: 137-57 PMID : 25446604 ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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