MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH435 : Dipteracanthus prostratus (Poir.) Nees |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | - |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Umarkhed | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Acanthaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Bell Weed, Pottakanchi . Malayalam : Velipadakkam, Thuppalampotti | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Ruellia prostrata Poir. Ruellia prostrata var. dejecta C.B.Cl. |
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| Description : | Diffuse herbs, rooting at lower nodes; stems villous. Leaves to 6 x 4 cm, ovate, acute, entire, base acute of obtuse; petiole 2-3 cm long. Flowers axillary, 2 or 3 together; bracts absent; bracteoles foliar, 1.5 x 1 cm, ovate; calyx 5-partite, lobes 10 mm long, linear, ciliate; corolla yellow, tube 8 mm long, lobes subequal, 1 cm long, obovate; stamens 4, didynamous, filaments connate below; ovary 2-celled, style densely hairy. Capsule 1.5 x 0.6 cm, linear oblong; seeds 5 in each cell, orbicular, compressed, marginate, smooth. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | It is believed to be anti-cancerous against the epidermis of the nasopharynx region, used in gonorrhea and is slightly hypoglycemic. | |||||||||||||
| 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 : ~ Afzal K, Uzair M, Chaudhary BA, Ahmad A, Afzal S and Saadullah M; "Genus Ruellia: Pharmacological and Phytochemical importance in Ethnopharmacology"; Acta Pol Pharm (2015); 72(5): 821-27 PMID : 26665388 ~ MAHIPAL S. SHEKHAWAT, M. MANOKARI AND C.P. RAVINDRAN ; "IN VITRO CLONAL PROPAGATION OF DIPTERACANTHUS PROSTRATUS (POIR.) NEES. - A VALUABLE MEDICINAL PLANT"; Innoriginal International Journal of Sciences (2015); 2(6): 7-10 PMID : |
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