MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MO007 : Peristylus plantagineus (Lindl.) Lindl. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 56 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Masoondi to Semadoh road in core along the slopes of nallah | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Orchid | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Orchidaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Plantain Peristylus; | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Habenaria elata (Dalzell) Alston Habenaria goodyeroides Hook. [Illegitimate] Habenaria wightii Trimen Herminium plantagineum Lindl. Peristylus elatus Dalzell |
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| Description : | Tuberous terrestrial herbs, to 30 cm tall. Leaves 16 x 4.5 cm, oblong or broadly elliptic, acute, glabrous and glossy. Flowers creamy, many, in 20-25 cm long spikes; bracts 8-10 x 2 mm, linear-lanceolate; sepals pale brown, oblong, obtuse; petals 2.5 x 2 mm, orbicular; lip white, 2 x 2 mm, obscurely 3-lobed, broadly ovate-oblong. A small perennial herb, 20-50 cm tall with stout brown stem. Leaves are 4-8, plantain-like, clustered in the middle of the stem. They are oblong, pointed, stalkless, with 5-7 nerves. Flowers are borne in dense upright spikes 10-25 cm long. The stalk bearing the spike is 5-10 cm long. Spur is globose, shorter than the sepals. Plantain Peristylus is found in Western Ghats. Flowering: June-July. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Diabetes Type 2 | |||||||||||||
| 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 : |
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