MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS078 : Barleria prionitis L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 378 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Rare | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Acanthaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Kate-Koranti, K- Katakolsa, Porcupine Flower, ommon yellow nail dye, thorny nail dye • Bengali: kantajhinti, pitajhinti • Gujarati: pilo kanta sheriyo • Hindi: jhinti, parush, pila piyabansa, pili katsaraiya, vajradanti • Kannada: mullugoranta • Konkani: korant • Malayalam: karimkurunni • Marathi: kolita, pivali koranti • Oriya: daskaranta • Sanskrit: artagalah, bana, dasi kurantakah, jhinti, kakubha, kinkiratah, kurantakah, kuravakah, mahasaha, mrdukantah, pitakurantakah, pitakuravah, pitamlanah, pitapushpakah, pitasairiyakah, sahacharah, udyanapaki, vajradanti • Tamil: cem-mulli, korantam, koti-p-pacalai, kovintam, kurinci, kutan, mancat-cemmulli • Telugu: gorantachettu | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Barleria appressa (Forssk.) Deflers Barleria coriacea Oberm. Barleria echinata St.-Lag. Barleria hystrix L. Barleria prionitis subsp. ameliae (A.Meeuse) Brummitt & J.R.I.Wood Barleria prionitis subsp. angustissima (Hochr.) Benoist Barleria prionitis subsp. delagoensis (Oberm.) Brummitt & J.R.I.Wood Barleria prionitis subsp. induta(C.B.Clarke) Brummitt & J.R.I.Wood Barleria prionitis subsp. madagascariensis Benoist Barleria prionitis subsp. prionitoides (Engl.) Brummitt & J.R.I.Wood Barleria prionitis subsp. pubiflora (Benth. ex Hohen.) Brummitt & J.R.I.Wood Barleria prionitis subsp. tanzaniana Brummitt & J.R.I.Wood Barleria prionitis var. pubescens Kuntze Barleria quadrispinosa Stokes Barleria spicata Roxb. Prionitis hystrix (L.) Miq. |
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| Description : | Erect armed shrubs, spines ca. 1.2 cm long. Leaves to 5-9 x 2.5-4 cm, elliptic, acute, mucronate, base cuneate, sparsely puberulus, ciliate on the margins, gland dotted beneath; petiole to 2 cm. Cymes axillary; bracts 2, 1.5 cm, oblong mucronate; outer calyx lobes 1.3 x 0.4 cm, inner 1.1x 0.2 cm, mucronate, hirsute; corolla tube 2.5 cm, lobes 2 cm obovate; filaments 1.3 cm, staminodes 2, included at the base of the corolla tube; ovary 2.5 mm, style 2.5 cm. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | utilized for treatment of toothache, catarrhal affections, whooping cough, inflammations, glandular swellings, urinary infection, jaundice, fever, gastrointestinal disorders and as diuretic and tonic. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | 6-hydroxyflavone barlerinoside shanzhiside methyl ester barlerin acetylbarlerin 7-methoxydiderroside lupulinoside balarenone pipataline prionisides barlerinoside verbascoside scutellarein |
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| Reference : | ~ J. Lenin Bapuji and S. Venkat Ratnam; "Traditional Uses of Some Medicinal Plants by tribals of Gangaraju Madugula
Mandal of Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh"; Ethnobotanical Leaflets (2009); 13: 388-98 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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