Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   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).

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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

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