| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 233 |
| Synonym | : | Hedyotis affinis Roem. & Schult.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Blue Diamond Flower |
| Plant Family | : | Rubiaceae |
| Description | : | Erect herbs, branches filiform, glabrous. Leaves to 25 x 1 mm, linear, entire, sessile; stipule ovate, entire or 2-3 toothed. Flowers 2 mm long, in terminal dichotomous cymes; pedicel and peduncles filiform, 1.5-2 cm long; calyx 1 mm long, lobes acute, scabrid; corolla white, tube villous inside. Capsule 2 x 1.5 mm, obovoid, truncate at apex. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Vertically cut rocky faces of stream and river banks and hill slopes |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | used as an oxitocic agent during labour. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: amine serotonin; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Not Common |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/244861
- https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Blue%20Diamond%20Flower.html
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Oldenlandia+affinis
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10837983 |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Kazhila C. Chinsembu and Marius Hedimbi; "Ethnomedicinal plants and other natural products with anti-HIV active compounds and their putative modes of action"; International Journal for Biotechnology and Molecular Biology Research (2010); 1(6): 74-91 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 | : Oldenlandia |
| Species | : Oldenlandia affinis |