MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH232 : Plectranthus rugosus Wall. ex Benth. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 427 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Chikhaldara and Makhala Plateaux | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Rare | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Labiatae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Wrinkled Leaf Isodon | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Isodon rugosus (Wall. ex Benth.) Codd Isodon plectranthoides Schrad. ex Benth. Lumnitzera densiflora (Roth) Spreng. Ocimum densiflorum Roth. Rabdosia rugosa (Wall. ex Benth.) H.Hara. |
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| Description : | Shrub, aromatic, much branched, 30-160 cm. Stems erect with rather slender quadrangular branches, leafy, with an indumentum of small stellate dendroid hairs. Leaves broad-ovate, variable in size, 1.5-7 (-9) x 1-3 (-4.5) cm, rugose, usually green or dark above with few branched hairs and white below with a very dense indumentum of small stellate-dendroid hairs, crenate or crenulate; petiole up to 2.5 cms, usually much less. Cymes on slender lateral branches, lax, forming often leafy racemes. Pedicels slender up to 6 mm, erect or spreading. Calyx in flower 2-3.5 mm, indistinctly bilabiate, obliquely campanulate, with simple and/or branched hairs of varying length and density and usually numerous oil globules; teeth short, subequal, broad triangular; calyx in fruit up to 6 mm, curved, spreading. Corolla white tinged or spotted pink or violet, c. 6 mm long; tube short included in calyx, somewhat gibbous at base; lips diverging, lower longer than upper. Nutlets pale brown to dark brown, oblong, c. 1.5 x 1 mm, mucilaginous on wetting. Fl. Per.: March-October. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The plant is used in traditional medical practices in toothache and is claimed to be effective as an anti-septic, a hypoglycaemic, an anti-Diarrheal and a bronchodilator. An extract of leaves is also used to treat hypertension, fevers, rheumatism and toothache. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | alpha-pinene limonene abietatriene abietatriene totarene phyllocladene caryophyllene acetate cubenol viridiflorol |
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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