MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS069 : Rotula aquatica Lour. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 311 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In rocky and boudry beds of major rivers like Sipna, Dolar Khapra, Khandu | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Boraginaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Aquatic Rotula • Hindi: pashanabhed • Marathi: machim • Tamil: ceppunerinji • Malayalam: kallurvanci • Telugu: pashanabhedi • Kannada: paashaanabheda • Khasi: La khowang • Sanskrit: ashmahabhedah, mutrala, pashanabhedah | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Rhabdia lycioides C.B.Clarke |
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| Description : | Stout branching shrubs; branched virgate, usually pinkish, glabrous. Leaves alternate or fascicled, 1-2 x 0.5 cm, oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse, sessile. Flowers solitary or in few flowered cymes axillary; calyx 3.5 mm long 5-partite, lobes lanceolate; corolla pink, 5 mm long, 7 mm across, campanulate, 5-lobed; stamens 5, anthers sagitate at base; ovary 4-celled, style filiform, stigma capitate. Drupe with 4, 1-seeded pyrenes, free, yellowish, smooth. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The roots possess astringent,sudorific, bitter and antiurolithiatic properties. Traditionally roots are used in renal and vesicle calculi, hemorrhoids, veneral diseases and diabetes.The roots also used for the treatment of piles and as a laxative. It exhibits cooling, bitter and astringent properties. Diuretic and cardiotonic properties. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | vanillic acid gallic acid pcoumaric acid Allantoin rhabdiol Baurenol kaempferol |
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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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