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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH077 : Ammannia multiflora Roxb.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 198  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Myrtales
Family : Lythraceae - Loosestrife family
Genus : Ammannia L. - redstem
Species : Ammannia multiflora Roxb. - manyflower redstem
Plant Location in Melghat : In stream beds drying ponds,waterlogged parts of fields  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Lythraceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Many Flowered Ammannia
 
Synonym : Ammannia australasica F.Muell.
Ammannia japonica Miq.
Ammannia madagascariensis Boivin ex Tul.
Ammannia multiflora f. decipiens Koehne
Ammannia multiflora var. parviflora (DC.) Koehne
Ammannia multiflora f. ramosissima Koehne
Ammannia parviflora DC.
Ammannia senegalensis var. multiflora Hiern
Cryptotheca dichotoma Blume
Ditheca debilis Miq.
Suffrenia dichotoma Miq.
Description : Plant 15-43 cm tall, erect. Stem usually branched. Leaves elliptic, lanceolate or linear-lanceolate, ± auriculate-cuneate at base, 3-40 mm log, 1-6 mm broad. Cymes 3(-15) flowered. Peduncle 1-4 mm long. Hypanthium 8-ribbed, ribs obscure in fruit. Epicalyx folds ± horn-like, minute or obscure. Sepals c. 0.5 mm long, usually reflexed in fruit. Petals minute, cuneate, obtuse. Style c. 1 mm long. Capsule slightly exceeding the hypanthium, 1-1.5 mm in diameter. Fl. Per.: September.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Antimalarial
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : -
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :