| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 303 |
| Synonym | : | Mitreola petiolata (J.F. Gmel.) Torr. & A. Gray;
Cynoctonum mitreola (L.) Britton;
Cynoctonum oldenlandioides (Wall. ex A. DC.) B.L. Rob.;
Cynoctonum paniculatum (Wall. ex G. Don) B.L. Rob.;
Cynoctonum petiolatum J.F. Gmel.;
Cynoctonum succulentum R.W.Long;
Mitreola inconspicua Zoll. & Moritzi;
Mitreola lanceolata Torr. ex Croom;
Mitreola ophiorhizoides Rich.;
Mitreola paniculata A. DC.;
Mitreola swartzii G. Don;
Ophiorrhiza mitreola L.;
Selenocera secundiflora Zipp. ex Span.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Loganiaceae |
| Description | : | Erect, annual herbs up to 50 cm tall. Leaves membranous, 3-7.5 x 1.5-3 cm, oblong, acute or acuminate, glabrous or nearly so, base tapering and decurrent into a petiole. Flowers in axillary and terminal, dichotomous cymes; bracts lanceolate-subulate. Corolla 5-lobed. Capsules wedge-shaped, veined, ca 0.4 cm long; seeds twice as long as broad, oblong, rounded at the ends, obscurely trigonous, pale, smooth and shining. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Belkund, Koktu valley, Dolar |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/260117 |
| 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 | : Gentianales |
| Family | : Loganiaceae - Logania family |
| Genus | : Mitreola L. - hornpod |
| Species | : Mitreola oldenlandioides |