MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH012 : Polygala erioptera DC. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 22 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Shade of wall | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Polygalaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Woolly-Winged Milkwort, Patsan, Bhonysan, Gulpankhi | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Polygala erioptera var. vahliana (DC.) Chodat. Polygala vahliana DC. |
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| Description : | Annual or perennial, + pubescent, 5-32 cm tall. Leaves linear-filiform to obovate-lanceolate, obtuse or acute, 2-45 mm long, 0.75-8 mm broad, recurved. Racemes lateral, lax, shorter than leaves, 3-27 mm. Bracts persistent, shorter than pedicel. Sepals persistent; outer sepals unequal, upper larger than the lower ones, broadly hyaline margined; inner sepals ovate, obtuse, 3-5 mm long, 1.5-3 mm broad, enlarged in fruit, oblique, + pubescent, 3-nerved, veinlets anastomosing. Lateral petals shorter or equalling the keel; keel 2.5-4.5 mm, crested. Capsule elliptic-oblong, emarginate, 2.5-5 mm long, 1.5-3 mm broad, pubescent, marginal and apical hairs long, wing ± 0-0.75 mm. Seed pilose, strophiole 3-appendiculate, appendages minute. Fl. Per.: throughout the year. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Energy drink, | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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