MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH249 : Rumex dentatus L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 446 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In river beds | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Rare | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Polygonaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Toothed Dock, Jangali chuka, Ambavati, Amrule, Ambavah, Jangli palak, Changeri,Ban Pate, Ban Palungo | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Rumex dentatus subsp. halacsyi (K. Rechinger) K. H. Rechinger Rumex dentatus subsp. klotzschianus (Meisner) K. H. Rechinger Rumex halacsyi K. Rechinger Rumex klotzschianus Meisner Rumex nipponicus Franchet & Savatier. |
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| Description : | Herbs annual, rarely biennial. Stems erect, 30-70 cm tall, branched from base, grooved; branches ascending to nearly divaricate, glabrous. Lower leaves: petiole 3-5 cm; leaf blade oblong to narrowly elliptic, 4-12 × 1.5-3 cm, both surfaces glabrous, or papillose along veins below, base rounded, truncate, or subcordate, margin slightly undulate, apex obtuse or acute; cauline leaves smaller; ocrea fugacious, membranous. Inflorescence racemose, several racemes aggregated and panicle-like. Flowers bisexual. Pedicel articulate below middle (in proximal third). Outer tepals elliptic, ca. 2 mm; inner tepals enlarged in fruit; valves triangular-ovate, 4-5 × 2.5-3 mm, all valves with tubercles 1.5-2 mm (in some infraspecific taxa of R. dentatus only 1 or 2 valves with tubercles), conspicuously net veined, base rounded, each margin with 2-4 teeth, apex acute to subacute; teeth 1.5-2 mm. Achenes yellow-brown, shiny, ovoid, sharply trigonous, 2-2.5 mm, base narrow, apex acute. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jun-Jul. 2n = 40. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | This plant has allelopathic activity. The root is used as an astringent application in the treatment of cutaneous disorders. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | chlorogenic acid quercetin Myricetin vitamin C kaempferol |
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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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