MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS077 : Barleria prattensis Santapau |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 377 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In Dhakna, Semadoh, Chikhaldara and Akot | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Acanthaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Koranti, Pink Barleria, Gulabi Koranti | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Barleria gibsonii Dalz. Barleria glauca T. Anders. Barleria montana Wight & Nees ex C.B.Cl. |
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| Description : | Glabrous subshrubs. Leaves opposite, to 11 x 5 cm ovate or elliptic, acuminate, mucronate, base acute or attenuate, membranous, glabrous; lateral nerves 5 or 6 pairs; petiole to 2 cm long. Flowers solitary, axillary, terminating in short racemes; bracts linear-subulate, 5mm long. Outer calyx lobes 2.2 - 2.5 x 2 cm, puberulent along the nerves; inner linear, 1 x 0.1 cm. Corolla funnel shaped, tube 3 cm long, white, lobes subequal, broadly ovate, pink-purple, 1.5 cm long. Ovary glabrous. Capsules ca. 2 cm long, oblong; seeds 4, orbicular, glabrous. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | curing fever, energy tonic and increasing lactation level. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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