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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH423 : Swertia minor (Griseb.) Knabl.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Gentianales
Family : Gentianaceae - Gentian family
Genus : Swertia
Species : Swertia minor (Griseb.) Knabl.
Plant Location in Melghat : Chikhaldara  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Gentianaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Lesser Swertia, Kiraatha thiktha, Lahan chirayat
 
Synonym : Ophelia minor Griseb.
Pleurogyna minor.
Swertia minor (Griseb.) Knobl.
Description : Herbs up to 15 cm tall. Leaves opposite decussate, flowers blue axillary. Low herb; stem subterete, faintly winged. Leaves ovate, rarely obovate, 0.6-1.8 x 0.3-1.2 cm, estipulate, 3-ribbed, stem-clasping, midrib faintly winged below, base obtuse, apex acute. Cymes to 2 cm, to 3-flowered; peduncles to 1.5 cm. Calyx-lobes 4, elliptic, 5 x 2 mm, glabrous, apiculate. Corolla rose; tube 1 mm; lobes 4, elliptic-oblong, 0.6 x 0.2 cm, twisted; nectaries 2 per lobe, basal, oblong, 3 mm wide. Stamens 4; filaments narrowly winged. Ovary 1-celled; ovules numerous, on parietal placentae; stigma sessile, 2-lobed.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Leaf decoction is given in fever.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : -
Reference : ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 PMID :