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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MS077 : Barleria prattensis Santapau

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 377  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Lamiales
Family : Acanthaceae - Acanthus family
Genus : Barleria L. - Philippine violet
Species : Barleria prattensis Santapau
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.


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 :