| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 226 |
| Synonym | : | Hedyotis repens (L.) Lam.;
Oldenlandia repens L.;
Campanula repens Lour.;
Dentella matsudae Hayata ;
Dentella minima Zipp. ex Span.;
Dentella stolonifera Montrouz.;
Heymia rigida Dennst.;
Lippaya telephioides Endl.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Creeping Lickstoop, Creeping Dentella |
| Plant Family | : | Rubiaceae |
| Description | : | Dwarf herbs, creeping, much branched, rather fleshy; branches flattened to angled, glabrous or puberulent, often rooting at nodes. Leaves subsessile to shortly petiolate; petiole to 1[-4] mm; blade drying stiffly papery, oblong-lanceolate, oblanceolate, or spatulate, 4-7[-10] × 1-2[-4] mm, glabrous or sparsely hirtellous at least along margins and principal veins, base cuneate to acute, margins flat, apex obtuse to acute; secondary veins not visible; stipules triangular, ca. 1 mm, entire to erose. Flowers solitary at forks of branchlets or rarely along stems, subsessile or with pedicel to 1[-2] mm. Calyx with ovary portion subglobose, ca. 1 × 1-1.5 mm, densely papillose-villous with flattened trichomes; limb 1-1.2 mm, deeply lobed; lobes narrowly triangular. Corolla white or pale yellow, 3-8[-12] mm, glabrous outside, sparsely villous inside throat; lobes triangular-ovate, 1-2 mm, acute. Fruit compressed globose, 3-5 × 3-5 mm, densely villous with multicellular, transparent, flattened, bulbous-tipped trichomes; seeds 0.3-0.5 mm. Fl. winter, fr. summer. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In stream & river beds,on moinst rocks. |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | poulticing sores, blood pressure, blood purification, improve eyesight damaged by high blood sugar, laxative, leaves are used for poulticing sores. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | IUCN Red - Least Concern |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.stuartxchange.org/Dilang butiki.html
- http://www.globinmed.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=105138
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/229531
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200022080 |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Asteridae |
| Order | : Rubiales |
| Family | : Rubiaceae - Madder family |
| Genus | : Dentella J.R. Forst. & G. Forst. |
| Species | : Dentella repens J.R. Forst. & G. Forst. |