MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH151 : Coldenia procumbens L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 312 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In drying ponds and shallow depressions and on mud flats in river beds | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Boraginaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Creeping Coldenia, Seruppadai, tripankhi, tripakshi, | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Coldenia angolensis Welw. Coldenia procumbens var. aristata Merr. Coldenia succulenta Peter Lobophyllum tetrandrum F. Muell. |
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| Description : | Trailing herbs, stem and leaves softly white villous. Leaves 1.5-3 x 0.5-1.5 cm, obliquely obovate or subpinnatifid, base cuneate, margin irregularly dentate, apex emarginate, lateral veins impressed above. Inflorescence axillary few-flowered sessile cymes or some times solitary. Calyx 4-lobed; lobes ovate-acute, ciliate. Corolla white, c. 2 mm long, tube c. 1 mm long; lobes 4, imbricate in buds. Stamens 4, included. Ovary 4-lobed, 4-locular; ovule 1-per locule. Drupe of 4 subconnate pyrenes, 1.5-2 mm across, subglobose. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Boil, Rheumatism, Suppurative, Swelling, Tumor, | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ Chellaiah Muthu, Muniappan Ayyanar, Nagappan Raja and Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu; "Medicinal plants used by traditional healers in Kancheepuram District of Tamil Nadu, India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2006); 2(43): 1-10 PMID : ~ J. Lenin Bapuji and S. Venkat Ratnam; "Traditional Uses of Some Medicinal Plants by tribals of Gangaraju Madugula Mandal of Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh"; Ethnobotanical Leaflets (2009); 13: 388-98 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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