MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH349 : Biophytum reinwardtii (Zucc.) Klotzsch |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 7 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Common at Semadoh | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Oxalidaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Reinwardt's Tree Plant, Horamuchhaka, Mothi lajwanti, Lajjalu | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Oxalis gracilenta Kurz. Oxalis reinwardtii Zucc. Oxalis sensitiva Zucc. |
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| Description : | Annuals up to 15 cm long. Leaves 12 - 17 jugate; rachis 4 - 7.5 cm, sparsely puberulous; leaflets overlapping, terminal largest, to 13 x 5 mm, asymmetric, obovate. Flowers umbellate in many flowered axillary peduncles; pedicels to 6 mm long; bracts ovate-attenuate, 1 - 1.5 mm long. Sepals 2 - 2.5 x 1 - 1.25 mm, ovate, acute-acuminate at apex, 7-nerved, half as long as petals in flower, 2/3 as long as in fruits. Petals yellow, 3.5 - 4.5 mm long, elliptic to oblanceolate, emarginated at apex; claw greenish, limb yellow. Fruits 3 - 3.5 x 2 - 2.5 mm, glandular hairy on the ribs; seeds 1 - 2 per cell, to 1.2 x 0.8 mm, transversely ridged and tubercled. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | cough, wounds, fever, | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | palmitate lupeol beta-sitosterol linoleic acid |
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| Reference : | ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Additions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants)"; The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat (1998); Technical Bulletin No. VII PMID : |
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