MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH011 : Polygala elongata Klein ex Willd. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 21 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Frequent among tall grasses on forest floor | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Polygalaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Narrow-Leaved Milkwort, Peria-nankai, Periya nangai | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Polygala glomerata Lour. Polygala glaucoides L. |
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| Description : | Narrow-Leaved Milkwort is a small annual herb, growing up to 15-40 cm tall. Fresh roots are aromatic. Branches are slender and hairless. Alternately arranged leaves are stalkless, linear-oblong, 2-4 cm long, blunt-tipped with narrow point at the tip. Yellow flowers arise in racemes, 6-20 cm long, in leaf axils. Flowers are shaped somewhat like pea flowers. Capsule is oblong, unequal sided. Flowering: August-September. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | anti-diabetic | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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