MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH091 : Pimpinella monoica Dalzell |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 221 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Among tall grasses on chikhaldara, vairat, Makhala plateaux at higher elevations | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Umbelliferae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | - | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Pimpinella wallichiana (Miq.) K.N. Gandhi. Helosciadium wallichianum Miq. ex Hohen. |
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| Description : | Erect herbs, 40-75 cm tall, stems simple below, branched above; stem and branches terete, faintly striate, often reddish-purple tinged, glabrous, young parts thinly pubescent. Lower cauline leaves pinnately 3-foliolate; lateral leaflets simple or secondarily pinnately trifoliate; petioles 3-6 cm long, sheathing, sparsely ciliate on margins; leaflets 2.6 x 0.8-3.2 cm, ovate to ovate-lanceolate, sparsely hairy, sharply serrate; petiolules 0.4-2.0 cm long, glabrous or so; secondary leaflets of lateral leaflets sessile; upper leaves often cut into numerous, linear segments or reduced to sheaths. Flowers dull white, in terminal compound umbels; primary rays 10-15, 1.0-3.5 cm long, glabrous or nearly so, slender, peduncles 2.5-8.0 cm long. Fruits ± 0.2 cm long, ovoid, pellucid-granulate. | |||||||||||||
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| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Pimolin khellin visnagin visamminol ammiol khellol bornyl acetate beta-caryophyllene limonene furocoumarin isopimpenellin |
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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