MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS087 : Colebrookea oppositifolia Sm. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 413 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In Chikhaldara, Tarubandha, Semadoh, Raipur ranges | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Labiatae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Chota Bhandar, Indian Squirrel Tail • Hindi: Bhamber, Bhirmoli, Binda, Pansra • Marathi: Bhaman, Dasai • Nepali: Dhursuli • Oriya: Bosik • Konkani: Bhamini • Nepali: Dhusure, Dosul, Dhulsu, Dhursuli | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Buchanania oppositifolia Sm. Colebrookea ternifolia Roxb. Elsholtzia oppositifolia (Sm.) Poir. Sussodia oppositifolia (Sm.) Buch.-Ham. |
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| Description : | Shrub up to 2.5 m, soft-pubescent or velutinous, eglandular throughout. Stems quandrangular when young. Leaves 10-20 x 5-8 cm, cuneate, apically acuminate, darkish green above, whitish canescent below; petiole thick, 1-3 cm. Flowers greenish white to mauve, often gynodioecious. Panicles widespreading. Spikes slender in flower 5-10 cm long, to c. 15 mm wide in fruit. Pedicels c. 0.5 mm or less. Calyx 1-2 mm in flower; teeth enlarging to c. 6 mm and prominently plumose in fruit. Corolla whitish 1.5-2 mm. Nutlets c. 0.5 mm long, obovoid, not trigonous, densely pilose, often only one developing. Fl. Per.: January-April. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The plant material is generally used to cure the diseases like epilepsy,fever, headache, and urinary problems. It possess Hepatoprotective, cardioprotective and anti-inflammatory attributes. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | negletein 6-glucoside 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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