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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH096 : Oldenlandia affinis (Roem. & Schult.) DC.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 233  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Rubiales
Family : Rubiaceae - Madder family
Genus : Oldenlandia
Species : Oldenlandia affinis
Plant Location in Melghat : Vertically cut rocky faces of stream and river banks and hill slopes  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : UNCOMMON  
Plant Family : Rubiaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Blue Diamond Flower
 
Synonym : Hedyotis affinis Roem. & Schult.
Description : Erect herbs, branches filiform, glabrous. Leaves to 25 x 1 mm, linear, entire, sessile; stipule ovate, entire or 2-3 toothed. Flowers 2 mm long, in terminal dichotomous cymes; pedicel and peduncles filiform, 1.5-2 cm long; calyx 1 mm long, lobes acute, scabrid; corolla white, tube villous inside. Capsule 2 x 1.5 mm, obovoid, truncate at apex.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : used as an oxitocic agent during labour.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : amine serotonin
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ Kazhila C. Chinsembu and Marius Hedimbi; "Ethnomedicinal plants and other natural products with anti-HIV active compounds and their putative modes of action"; International Journal for Biotechnology and Molecular Biology Research (2010); 1(6): 74-91 PMID :