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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH371 : Exacum bicolor Roxb.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 36  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Gentianales
Family : Gentianaceae - Gentian family
Genus : Exacum
Species : Exacum bicolor
Plant Location in Melghat : Bori nallah  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gentianaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Bicolor Persian Violet, Avachiretta, Bara-charayatah, Habshi-charayatah, Udi chirayat, Cheti, Dodda Chirayutha, Koochuri, Sher-ri-takti
 
Synonym : Exacum tetragonum Roxb.
Exacum perottetii
Description : Tall herbs, to 120 cm high; stems quadrangular, not or narrowly winged. Leaves to 7 x 1.5 cm, elliptic, narrowed to a broad petiole, acute at apex, 3-ribbed. Cymes terminal, corymbose; bracts 7 mm long, linear. Flowers many; calyx 9 mm long, wings 2 mm broad, lobes acuminate; corolla blue, tube short, lobes 20 x 8 mm, elliptic, acute; anthers 8 mm long, eglandular, filaments broaden at base.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The plant for the treatment of fever, malaria, and blood purification.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : -
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 :