MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH069 : Zornia gibbosa Span. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 164 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Among tall grasses of forest undergrowth on open grasslands and in fields | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Leguminosae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Zipri, grasslike zornia, landgu | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Zornia angustifolia sensu Bojer (Misapplied) Zornia augustifolia sensu auct. Zornia diphylla sensu auct. (Misapplied) Zornia graminea Span. Zornia pratensis sensu Mohlenbr. (Misapplied) |
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| Description : | Annual, branches prostrate or ascending, glabrous or pubescent. Leaf bifoliolate, petiole 6.0-20 mm long, leaflets 0.7-3.0 cm long, 3.5-10 mm broad, sessile, lanceolate, linear-lanceolate or linear, glandular punctate below, glabrous. Inflorescence a 3-12-flowered raceme, 2.5-10 cm long. Bracts foliaceous, up to 1.3 cm long, black dotted, completely enclosing the flower. Calyx 3.5-4 mm long, 2 upper teeth obtuse, united, ciliate above, 2 lateral teeth smaller, the lowest longest, acute, ciliate. Corolla 7-8 mm long. Fruit 1-6 jointed, joints c. 2.5 mm long, indehiscent, echinate. Fl.Per.: August-September. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Inflammation, Dysentery, anti-inflammatory | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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