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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH151 : Coldenia procumbens L.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 312  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Lamiales
Family : Boraginaceae - Borage family
Genus : Coldenia
Species : Coldenia procumbens
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.


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 :