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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH325 : Commelina suffruticosa Blume

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Commelinales
Family : Commelinaceae - Spiderwort family
Genus : Commelina L. - dayflower
Species : Commelina suffruticosa Bl.
Plant Location in Melghat : Chaurakund  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Commelinaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Shrubby Dayflower, Shrubby Spiderwort
 
Synonym : Commelina rugulosa C.B.Clarke.
Commelina simsonii C.B.Clarke.
Spathodithyros suffruticosus (Blume) Hassk.
Description : Herbs, with fibrous roots, bearded filaments and beaked filaments. Herbs perennial. Stems erect or ascending, branched only distally, to more than 35 cm, glabrous. Leaf sheaths sparsely hirsute-ciliate and hirsute in a line on 1 side; petiole obvious, to 1 cm; leaf blade lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 8--13 × 3--5 cm, glabrous on both surfaces. Involucral bracts borne opposite leaves, broadly cordate, open, ca. 1.6 × 1.1 cm when folded, sparsely puberulent, apex obtuse. Cincinni 4-flowered; peduncle ca. 8 mm; pedicels ca. 3 mm, twisted in fruit. Sepals ca. 4 mm, membranous. Petals white, ca. 4 mm. Capsule subglobose, 3.8--5 mm, 2-valved. Seeds 1 per valve, light brown, ca. 2.8 mm (immature).
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The plant is used in menorrhagia. Root is applied to sores.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : -
Reference : ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 PMID :

~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some ethnomedicinally important new plant reports from Melghat"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2008); 32(Suppl.): 214-215. PMID :