MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH150 : Hoppea dichotoma Hayne ex Willd. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 308 |
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| 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. |
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| 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 |
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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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