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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH150 : Hoppea dichotoma Hayne ex Willd.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 308  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Gentianales
Family : Gentianaceae - Gentian family
Genus : Hoppea
Species : Hoppea dichotoma Hayne ex Willd.
Plant Location in Melghat : Soft margins of streams  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : IUCN Red List - Least Concern  
Plant Family : Gentianaceae  

 
Plant Common Name : Indian Hoppea, Ram jeeta
 
Synonym : Canscora pusilla Roem. & Schult.
Cicendia roxburghii Griseb.
Hopea dichotoma (Hayne ex Willd.) Vahl
Hoppea dichotoma f. pedicellata S.R. Paul
Pladera pusilla Roxb.


Description : Dichotomously branched, annual, 2-10 cm high, delicate herb. Stem branched from base or above, lineolate. Leaves 2-8 x 1.5-6 mm, oblanceolate-lanceolate or elliptic, acute, entire. Flowers solitary, terminal on 2-4 mm long pedicel, tetramerous. Calyx 1.5-3(-4) mm long, tube smaller than lobes; lobes 1-25 x 1.0-15 mm, lanceolate-oblanceolate, acute-acuminate, entire. Corolla tubular, smaller than calyx, 1-1.5 mm long; lobes 0.75-1.5 x 0.5-1.0 mm, ovate, entire, acute. Stamens 4, 3 sterile, 1 fertile; fertile larger than sterile. Ovary globose, 1.75-2.25 x 15-2.0 mm, capsule many seeded, seeds reticulate.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Bite(Snake), Epilepsy, Piles
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : gluanol, friedelin
friedelin-3beta-ol
gluanone

Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :