MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH097 : Oldenlandia corymbosa L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 234 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In stream and river beds, Moist open grasslands as weed in fields | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Rubiaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Bhuti tida, Diamond Flower, corymbose hedyotis, flat-top mille graines, old world diamond-flower, wild chayroot • Hindi: daman pappar, pitpapra • Marathi: pitpapda • Tamil: kattucayaver, pappan puntu, parppatakam • Malayalam: parppatakam, parppatakappullu • Telugu: vernnela-vemu • Kannada: parpata hullu • Konkani: poripat • Nepali: piringo • Sanskrit: parpatah, parpatakah | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Gerontogea corymbosa (L.) Cham. & Schltdl. Hedyotis biflora var. corymbosa (L.) Kurz. Hedyotis corymbosa (L.) Lam. |
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| Description : | Annual herb, 8-10 cm tall, sometimes prostrate, intemodes 10-20 mm long. Leaves 8-20 x 2-3 mm, linear or elliptic-lanceolate, margin often recurved, sometimes with minute scabridulous hairs, glabrous or with appressed hairs on the lower surface and minutely papillose on the upper surface; stipules small, membranous, ending in a long and several short teeth. Flowers axillary, 1-4, rarely many. Peduncle 10-15 mm long, glabrous. Pedicel c. 4-5 mm long, enlarged in fruit. Flowers isostylous. Calyx 2-2.5 mm long, teeth c. 1 mm long, margins scabridulous. Corolla white or purplish; tube c. 0.5 mm long; lobes c. 1 mm long. Anthers sessile, inserted in the mouth of corolla-tube. Style glabrous. Capsule globose or pyriform, didymous, 1.5-2 mm in diameter, with appressed hairs. Fl. Per.: August-October. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The leaves are pounded, soaked in warm water and the liquid drunk to treat stomach disorders. They are used externally as a poultice to treat sores and sore eyes. The entire plant is used in decoction as an anthelmintic, antirheumatic, depurative, diaphoretic, digestive, diuretic, febrifuge, pectoral and stomachic. In India, it is a common ingredient in mixtures used internally to treat remittent fevers, gastric irritation, nervous depression and as a tonic. It is also used to treat jaundice and other liver conditions. The juice of the plant is applied to the hands and feet to cool them when the patient has a fever. The roots are reported to have vermifuge properties. They are often used as a tincture. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | biflorine biflorone Beta-sitosterol oleanolic acid ursolic acid geniposide 6 alpha-hydroxygeniposide scandoside methyl ester asperulosidic acid deacetylasperuloside asperuloside rutin |
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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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