MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH343 : Cleome papillosa Steud. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 1 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In 1994 at Behali In 1996 at Dharkhora In 1997 at Dhamangaon Gadhi-Chikhaldara Road. In 1998 at Makhala Road | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Rare | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Cleomaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Torthan | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Cleome scaposa DC. Cleome papillosa Steud., nom. illeg. Cleome gracilis Edgew. Cleome linearis Stocks ex T. Anders. Cleome radula Fenzl. |
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| Description : | Annual herbs, strongly aromatic, about 10-60 cm tall. Stem erect, base woody, usually much branched, glandular or eglandular pubescent with setose scabrous hairs, branches slender, usually branched from the base. Leaves simple, broadly ovate-suborbicular, about 12-30 x 5-25 mm across, base cordate or rounded, margin ciliate, entire, apex retuse or rounded, green pubescent above, paler pubescent beneath, mibrib impressed above, slightly prominent beneath, lateral veins 2-4 on either side of the midrib, petiole pubescent, gradually shorter towards the shoot, subsessile to 20 mm long. Inflorescence racemes, slender, many flowered, lax and elongated in fruit, about 4-15 cm long. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, yellow, cream white to pinkish, about 3-4 mm across, bracteate at the lower flowers and ebracteate above, bracts foliaceous, pedicel filiform, slender, about 1-4 mm long, up to 8 mm long in fruits, sepals 4, equal, lanceolate-elliptic, valvate, free or slightly fused at the base, apex subacute, scabrous, glandular pubescent outside, about 1.5-2 mm across, petals 4, obovate-oblong, glabrous, about 2-3.5 x 1-1.5 mm across. Stamens 6, filament inserted on a discoid, glabrous, about 2 mm long, anthers ovoid. Ovary superior, bicarpellary, sessile, unilocular, about 2-2.5 x 0.5 mm across, stigma capitate. Fruit capsule, dehiscent, linear, about 20-30 x 1-1.2 mm across, glabrous or grandular, with persistent seed bearing replum. Seeds 15-25, orbicular or reniform, about 0.5-0.7 mm across, granulate, cleft fused between 2 ends, brownish black. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Plant decoction given in fever (Bhogaonkar and Devarkar 2002). | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Additions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants)"; The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat (1998); Technical Bulletin No. VII PMID : ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some unique ethnomedicinal plants of Korkus of Melghat Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) "; Ethnobotany (2002); 14: 16-19 PMID : |
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