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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH177 : Buchnera hispida Buch.-Ham. ex D. Don

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 351  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Scrophulariales
Family : Scrophulariaceae - Figwort family
Genus : Buchnera L.
Species : Buchnera hispida L. - bluehearts
Plant Location in Melghat : Among tall grasses in Chikhaldara range  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : UNCOMMON  
Plant Family : Scrophulariaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Karanji
 
Synonym : Buchnera browniana Schinz
Buchnera longifolia Klotzsch
Buchnera macrocarpa A. Rich.
Buchnera schimperiana Hochst. ex A. Rich.
Striga schimperiana Hochst.
Description : Rigid hispid erect herbs, to 60 cm high, usually not branched. Lower leaves opposite, 5 x 1 cm, elliptic, obtuse, serrate, attenuate at base; upper leaves alternate, narrower, densely hispid. Flowers pink to bluish-violet, in terminal lax spike of 20 cm long; bracts ovate, acute, hispid; sepals 5-6 mm long, tubular, acutely lobed; corolla tube 8 mm long, narrow, hairy inside; lobes equal, small, spreading, blue; stamens 4, filaments short, anthers not cohering; ovary many-ovuled; style stout, stigma terminal. Capsule 5 x 3 mm, oblong, loculicidal, opening by apical slits, glabrous; seeds 0.5 mm long, curved-obovoid, black, angled.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The dried powdered plant is mixed with castor oil and applied externally to treat scabies and eczema.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : -
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :