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MH202 : Hemigraphis latebrosa (Roth) Nees

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 386  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Scrophulariales
Family : Acanthaceae - Acanthus family
Genus : Hemigraphis Nees - hemigraphis
Species : Hemigraphis latebrosa
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Acanthaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Morpankhi, Shade Loving Hemigraphis
 
Synonym : Hemigraphis crenata (Benth.) Bremek.
Hemigraphis crossandra (Steud.) Bremek.
Hemigraphis elegans (Hook.) T. Anders.
Hemigraphis elegans var. crenata C. B. Cl.
Hemigraphis pavala (Roxb.) Kurz
Hygrophila pavala (Roxb.) Kurz
Ruellia crenata Benth. ex Hohen.
Ruellia crossandra Steud.
Ruellia diffusa Wall.
Ruellia elegans Hook.
Ruellia erecta Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.
Ruellia fasciculata Herb. Madr. ex Wall.
Ruellia latebrosa Roth
Ruellia obscura Russ. ex Wall.
Ruellia parviflora Hort. Tonell. ex Nees
Ruellia pavala Roxb.
Ruellia satpoorensis Wawra.
Description : Diffuse weak herbs or undershrubs; branches procumbent; stem densely white-hairy. Leaves opposite, 2-6 x 1-2.2 cm, ovate, crenate-serrate, apex acute or acuminate, base cuneate, bulbous based hairs on both sides; petiole 1- 3 cm long. Flowers in axillary or terminal, shortly peduncled, few-flowered, capitate spikes; bracts 10 x 2 mm, elliptic-oblong, 1-nerved, long-hairy, ciliate; hairs sometimes gland-tipped. Calyx 5-lobed, free near to the base; lobes unequal, ciliate, sparsely glandular-hairy; larger lobe 7-9 mm long, oblong-linear; other 4-lobes 5-7 mm long, linear. Corolla blue, , 12 mm long, funnel-shaped; tube broad above; lobes unequal, rounded. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; longer filaments bearded in the upper part; anther cells oblong. Ovary 2-loculed, hairy; style thickened below the blunt stigma. Capsule 4-6 mm long, linear-oblong, minutely pub-scent; seeds 6, yellowish-white, compressed, hairy.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Malaria; Plant decoction used as blood purifier. (Bhogaonkar and Devarkar 2002).
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : -
Reference : ~ Afzal K, Uzair M, Chaudhary BA, Ahmad A, Afzal S and Saadullah M; "Genus Ruellia: Pharmacological and Phytochemical importance in Ethnopharmacology"; Acta Pol Pharm (2015); 72(5): 821-27 PMID : 26665388

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

~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some unique ethnomedicinal plants of Korkus of Melghat Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) "; Ethnobotany (2002); 14: 16-19 PMID :