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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH230 : Orthosiphon rubicundus (D.Don) Benth.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 425  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Lamiales
Family : Lamiaceae / Labiatae - Mint family
Genus : Orthosiphon
Species : Orthosiphon rubicundus
Plant Location in Melghat : In Chikhaldara, Semadoh and Akot ranges  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Labiatae  
 
Plant Common Name : Red Java Tea
 
Synonym : Lumnitzera virgata (D.Don) Spreng.
Ocimum mollissimum Wall. ex Hook.f.
Ocimum rubicundum Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don Ocimum tuberosum Roxb.
Ocimum virgatum Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don, nom. illeg.
Orthosiphon atacorensis A.Chev., pro syn.
Orthosiphon pascuensis G.Taylor
Orthosiphon rubicundus hohenackeri Hook.f.
Orthosiphon rubicundus var. canescens Benth.
Orthosiphon rubicundus var. macrocarpus Prain
Orthosiphon rubicundus var. mollissimus Benth.
Orthosiphon rubicundus var. rigidus Benth.
Orthosiphon salagensis Baker
Orthosiphon virgatus (D.Don) Benth.
Orthosiphon xylorrhizus Briq.
Plectranthus tuberosus Roxb. ex Benth., pro syn.
Plectranthus virgatus D.Don.
Description : Perennial herb with a woody rootstock. Stems erect, slender, quadrangular, leafy below, simple or branched, 15-50 cm, with an indumentum of short spreading hairs. Leaves obovate to oblong-elliptic, 4-8 x 1-3 cm, inconspicuously gland-dotted, crenulate to serrulate, cuneate, sessile, apex rounded or acute, with short multicellular hairs or glabrescent. Inflorescence unbranched or branched. Verticillasters 10-20, forming long rather slender racemes, 4-8-flowered, distant. Bracts 2-2.5 mm, ovate. Pedicels 1.5-3 mm. Calyx tubular, c. 4.5 mm in flower, expanding in fruit to 9-10 mm, deflexed and curved, tubular campanulate; throat glabrous; lateral teeth in fruit broadly ovate-triangular, c. 1.5 mm; lower teeth narrow triangular-subulate, c. 2.5 mm. Corolla white or pink, c. 12 mm; tube clearly exserted beyond calyx teeth. Stamens included. Nutlets ovoid-globose, 1.5 x 1.2 mm apically rounded, finely punctulate, mucilaginous on wetting.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : traditional medicine
 
Plant's Phytochemicals :
Reference : ~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 PMID :

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

~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID :