MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH095 : Dentella repens J.R. Forst. & G. Forst. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 226 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In stream & river beds,on moinst rocks. | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | IUCN Red - Least Concern | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Rubiaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Creeping Lickstoop, Creeping Dentella | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Hedyotis repens (L.) Lam. Oldenlandia repens L. Campanula repens Lour. Dentella matsudae Hayata Dentella minima Zipp. ex Span. Dentella stolonifera Montrouz. Heymia rigida Dennst. Lippaya telephioides Endl. |
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| Description : | Dwarf herbs, creeping, much branched, rather fleshy; branches flattened to angled, glabrous or puberulent, often rooting at nodes. Leaves subsessile to shortly petiolate; petiole to 1[-4] mm; blade drying stiffly papery, oblong-lanceolate, oblanceolate, or spatulate, 4-7[-10] × 1-2[-4] mm, glabrous or sparsely hirtellous at least along margins and principal veins, base cuneate to acute, margins flat, apex obtuse to acute; secondary veins not visible; stipules triangular, ca. 1 mm, entire to erose. Flowers solitary at forks of branchlets or rarely along stems, subsessile or with pedicel to 1[-2] mm. Calyx with ovary portion subglobose, ca. 1 × 1-1.5 mm, densely papillose-villous with flattened trichomes; limb 1-1.2 mm, deeply lobed; lobes narrowly triangular. Corolla white or pale yellow, 3-8[-12] mm, glabrous outside, sparsely villous inside throat; lobes triangular-ovate, 1-2 mm, acute. Fruit compressed globose, 3-5 × 3-5 mm, densely villous with multicellular, transparent, flattened, bulbous-tipped trichomes; seeds 0.3-0.5 mm. Fl. winter, fr. summer. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | poulticing sores, blood pressure, blood purification, improve eyesight damaged by high blood sugar, laxative, leaves are used for poulticing sores. | |||||||||||||
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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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