Hemigraphis latebrosa
Hemigraphis latebrosa
Hemigraphis latebrosa
Hemigraphis latebrosa
MH202 : Hemigraphis latebrosa (Roth) Nees
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 386 |
| Synonym | : | Hemigraphis crenata (Benth.) Bremek.;
Hemigraphis crossandra (Steud.) Bremek.;
Hemigraphis elegans (Hook.) T. Anders.;
Hemigraphis elegans var. crenata C. B. Cl.;
Hemigraphis pavala (Roxb.) Kurz;
Hygrophila pavala (Roxb.) Kurz;
Ruellia crenata Benth. ex Hohen.;
Ruellia crossandra Steud.;
Ruellia diffusa Wall.;
Ruellia elegans Hook.;
Ruellia erecta Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.;
Ruellia fasciculata Herb. Madr. ex Wall.;
Ruellia latebrosa Roth;
Ruellia obscura Russ. ex Wall.;
Ruellia parviflora Hort. Tonell. ex Nees;
Ruellia pavala Roxb.;
Ruellia satpoorensis Wawra.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Morpankhi, Shade Loving Hemigraphis |
| Plant Family | : | Acanthaceae |
| Description | : | Diffuse weak herbs or undershrubs; branches procumbent; stem densely white-hairy. Leaves opposite, 2-6 x 1-2.2 cm, ovate, crenate-serrate, apex acute or acuminate, base cuneate, bulbous based hairs on both sides; petiole 1- 3 cm long. Flowers in axillary or terminal, shortly peduncled, few-flowered, capitate spikes; bracts 10 x 2 mm, elliptic-oblong, 1-nerved, long-hairy, ciliate; hairs sometimes gland-tipped. Calyx 5-lobed, free near to the base; lobes unequal, ciliate, sparsely glandular-hairy; larger lobe 7-9 mm long, oblong-linear; other 4-lobes 5-7 mm long, linear. Corolla blue, , 12 mm long, funnel-shaped; tube broad above; lobes unequal, rounded. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; longer filaments bearded in the upper part; anther cells oblong. Ovary 2-loculed, hairy; style thickened below the blunt stigma. Capsule 4-6 mm long, linear-oblong, minutely pub-scent; seeds 6, yellowish-white, compressed, hairy. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Malaria; Plant decoction used as blood purifier. (Bhogaonkar and Devarkar 2002). |
| 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/250383
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=250084345 |
| 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 : ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some unique ethnomedicinal plants of Korkus of Melghat Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) "; Ethnobotany (2002); 14: 16-19 PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Asteridae |
| Order | : Scrophulariales |
| Family | : Acanthaceae - Acanthus family |
| Genus | : Hemigraphis Nees - hemigraphis |
| Species | : Hemigraphis latebrosa |