Coldenia procumbens
Coldenia procumbens
Coldenia procumbens
MH151 : Coldenia procumbens L.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 312 |
| Synonym | : | Coldenia angolensis Welw.;
Coldenia procumbens var. aristata Merr.;
Coldenia succulenta Peter;
Lobophyllum tetrandrum F. Muell.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Creeping Coldenia, Seruppadai, tripankhi, tripakshi, |
| Plant Family | : | Boraginaceae |
| Description | : | Trailing herbs, stem and leaves softly white villous. Leaves 1.5-3 x 0.5-1.5 cm, obliquely obovate or subpinnatifid, base cuneate, margin irregularly dentate, apex emarginate, lateral veins impressed above. Inflorescence axillary few-flowered sessile cymes or some times solitary. Calyx 4-lobed; lobes ovate-acute, ciliate. Corolla white, c. 2 mm long, tube c. 1 mm long; lobes 4, imbricate in buds. Stamens 4, included. Ovary 4-lobed, 4-locular; ovule 1-per locule. Drupe of 4 subconnate pyrenes, 1.5-2 mm across, subglobose. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In drying ponds and shallow depressions and on mud flats in river beds |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Boil, Rheumatism, Suppurative, Swelling, Tumor, |
| 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://phytochem.nal.usda.gov/phytochem/ethnoPlants/show/3761?et=
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/229285?pos= |
| Reference | : | ~ Chellaiah Muthu, Muniappan Ayyanar, Nagappan Raja and Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu; "Medicinal plants used by traditional healers in Kancheepuram District of Tamil Nadu, India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2006); 2(43): 1-10 PMID : ~ 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 : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Asteridae |
| Order | : Lamiales |
| Family | : Boraginaceae - Borage family |
| Genus | : Coldenia |
| Species | : Coldenia procumbens |