MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH080 : Ludwigia perennis L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 204 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In stream and river beds from Rangubeli, and Jarida | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Red List Category - Least Concern | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Onagraceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | - | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Isnardia jussieuoides Kuntze. Isnardia multiflora Guill. & Perr. Isnardia parviflora (Roxb.) Kuntze. Jussiaea caryophyllaea Lam. Jussiaea maderaspatana Steud. Jussiaea perennis (L.) Brenan. Ludwigia caryophyllea (Lam.) Merrill & Metcalf. Ludwigia humbertii Robyns & Lawalrée. Ludwigia jussiaeoides Wall. Ludwigia lythroides Bl. Ludwigia multiflora Walp. Ludwigia nesaeoides H. Perrier. Ludwigia oppositifolia L. Ludwigia parviflora Roxb. Ludwigia zeylanica Pers. Oenothera quadricolumnata Noronha. |
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| Description : | Annual herb up to 1 m tall, subglabrous or minutely puberulent on younger parts. Leaves narrowly elliptical to lanceolate, 1-11 x 0.3-2.7 cm, narrowly cuneate at base, the apex subacute, with petioles 2-15 mm long, winged. Sepals 4(-rarely 5), deltoid, 2-3.5 x 0.7-1.8 mm, glabrous or minutely puberulent. Petals yellow, elliptical, 1-3 x 0.7-2 mm. Stamens as many as sepals, rarely more. Pollen shed in tetrads. Style 0.7-1.5 mm long. Capsules thin-valled, glabrous or puberulent, 3-16(-19) mm long, terete, readily and irregularly loculicidal, sessile or on a pedicel up to 6 mm long, often more or less nodding. Seeds pluriseriate in each locule of the capsule, free, brown with fine brown lines, ellipsoid-rounded, 0.3-0.5 x 0.2-0.25 mm, with narrow, inconspicuous raphe. Gametic chromosome number, n = 8. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The plant is boiled in oil and applied externally to reduce fever(Datta and Banerjee, 1979). | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Quercetin | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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