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MS080 : Peristrophe bicalyculata (Retz.) Nees

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 397  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Scrophulariales
Family : Acanthaceae - Acanthus family
Genus : Peristrophe
Species : Peristrophe bicalyculata (Retz.) Nees
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Shrubs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Acanthaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Dicliptera paniculata(Forssk.) I.Darbysh.
Peristrophe paniculata(Forssk.)
Dianthera bicalyculata Retz.
Dianthera bifida Moench.
Dianthera malabarica L. fil.
Dianthera paniculata Forssk.
Dianthera rugosa Perr. ex Nees.
Dicliptera bicalyculata Kostel.
Dicliptera paniculata var. rivinoides (C.B.Cl.)Karthik. & Moorthy.
Justicia bicalyculata (Retz.) Vahl.
Justicia ligulata Lam.
Justicia malabarica (L. fil.) Soland.
Justicia ruderalis Russ. ex Steud.
Peristrophe bicalyculata var. rivinoides C.B.Cl.
Peristrophe dewevrei Wildem. & Th. Dur.
Peristrophe doriae Terrac.
Peristrophe kotschyana Nees.
Peristrophe rivinoides Wall.
Peristrophe schimperiana Hochst. ex Nees
Ruellia paniculata (Forssk.) C. B. Cl.
Description : An erect to spreading, upto 1 m tall hairy herb with sharply 4-6-angled stems. Leaves on 1-1.7 cm long petioles; lamina ovate-elliptic to lanceolate, 4-6 x 1.5-4 cm, densely lineolate, ± pubescent especially on nerves beneath, basally rounded to acute, acute to acuminate at the apex. Flowers pedicellate, pink or purple, in a terminal or axillary lax panicle of cymes; bracts 2, linear-spathulate, much unequal, 7-15 mm long, acute; brcteoles in 2 valvate pairs, unequal-subequal, scarious on margins, acute. Calyx lobes linear, c. 3.5-4 mm long, hairy, acute, valvate. Corolla tube cylindrical, 4-5 mm long, lips subequal, puberulous; upper lip elliptic-oblong, 5-7 mm long, entire or notched; lower lip slightly longer than upper, deflexed, slightly crested with 3 acte lobes. Staminal filaments c. 5 mm long, hairy. Ovary oblong, apically pubescent; style c. 1 cm long. Capsule ellipsoid, 1-1.2 cm long, basally solid ad hairy, acuminate. Seeds orbicular, c. 2.5 mm across, minutely papillate. Fl. Per.: October-February.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The herb is used for its anti-bacterial property (tuberculostatic), snake poison, in bone fracture, sprain, fever, cold, cough and for ear and eye treatments. Anti-cancer (Ogunwande et al., 2010); It is used on fever, dyspepsia, swellings and bronchitis, juice of the leaves is applied on glandular swelling.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Beta-Caryophyllene, alpha-zingiberene
35-hydroxynonatriacontanal
pentunidin–3–rhamnoglucoside
Reference : ~ Afzal K, Uzair M, Chaudhary BA, Ahmad A, Afzal S and Saadullah M; "Genus Ruellia: Pharmacological and Phytochemical importance in Ethnopharmacology"; Acta Pol Pharm (2015); 72(5): 821-27 PMID : 26665388

~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ Sonika Jain, Jaya Dwivedi, Pankaj Kumar Jain, Swaha Satpathy and Arjun Patra; "Medicinal Plants for Treatment of Cancer: A Brief Review"; Pharmacogn. J. (2016); 8(2): 87-102 PMID :