MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH227 : Leucas zeylanica (L.) W.T. Aiton |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 422 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Labiatae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Ceylon slitwort | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Leonurus marrubiastrum Burm.f. Leonurus parviflorus Moench Leucas bancana Miq. Leucas indica (L.) Sm. Leucas malayana Hance. Leucas zeylanica (L.) R. Br. Leucas zeylanica var. linearis L.H.Cramer. Leucas zeylanica var. zeylanica. Leucasia zeylanica (L.) Raf. Phlomis gracilis (L.) Salisb. [Illegitimate] Phlomis indica L. Phlomis octodentata Stokes. Phlomis zeylanica L. Spermacoce denticulata Walp. |
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| Description : | Herbs erect, ca. 40 cm tall. Stems hispid-villous or villous-hirsute. Petiole ca. 5 mm; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate, 3.5-5 × 0.5-1 cm, sparsely strigose, densely so on veins and densely yellowish glandular abaxially, base cuneate-attenuate, margin remotely crenate-serrate above base, apex acuminate, lateral veins 3 or 4 pairs. Verticillasters ca. 1.5 cm in diam., subequal, few flowered, sparsely hispid; bracts linear, mostly shorter than calyx tube, apex somewhat spinescent. Calyx tubular-campanulate, slightly curved, basally glabrous, slightly corrugate, sparsely hispid at apex outside, minutely hispid inside, veins inconspicuous, not hispid; mouth oblique, slightly constricted; teeth 8 or 9, spinescent, ca. 1 mm. Corolla white or white with purple spots, ca. 1.2 mm; tube slender, straight, slightly enlarged, densely villous near throat, subglabrous at base outside, villous annulate inside; lower lip ca. 2 × as long as upper lip, spreading, lateral lobes ovate; middle lobe largest, elliptic, undulate on margin. Nutlets chestnut brown, ellipsoid, subtriquetrous, shiny. Fl. and fr. year round. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Leaves is used for sores of eyes and nostrils. A poultice for scabies, itches, headaches, vertigo, and colic. Also used as a vermifuge with children. fever, jaundice, and for scorpion and snake bites. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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