Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH214 : Rungia pectinata (L.) Nees.

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 399

Synonym : Rungia parviflora Nees.;

Plant Common Name : Comb Rungia, Sut, Tavashu murunghie, Punakapundu

Plant Family : Acanthaceae

Description : Herbs 20-50 cm tall, annual or perennial. Stem basally prostrate and rooting at nodes then erect, minutely pubescent. Petiole 0-7 mm; leaf blade oblong-elliptic, 1-4 × 0.4-1.4 cm, glabrous except for a few trichomes along veins, secondary veins ca. 4 on each side of midvein, base cuneate and decurrent onto petiole, margin entire, apex acute. Spikes axillary or terminal, 0.5-2 cm, 1-sided, solitary or sometimes 2 or 3 compound; bracts dimorphic; sterile bracts green, elliptic, ca. 4 × 0.7 mm, glabrous, apex acute; fertile bracts circular to obovate, 4-5 × ca. 2 mm, pubescent, margin broadly hyaline, apex obtuse to rounded to emarginate and mucronulate; bracteoles elliptic, 2-3 mm, margin ciliate, apex 2-cleft and subacute. Calyx colorless, pubescent; lobes linear-lanceolate, ca. 3 × 0.5 mm, margin narrowly hyaline, apex mucronulate. Corolla blue or white, ca. 5 mm, outside pubescent; lower lip 3-lobed, lobes triangular; upper lip ovate, 1-2 mm, apex emarginate. Staminal filaments glabrous. Ovary glabrous. Capsule ellipsoid, ca. 2.5 mm, glabrous, 2-4-seeded, apex apiculate. Seeds orbicular in outline, ca. 1 mm in diam., minutely verrucose. Fl. Nov-Jan, fr. Jan-Apr. 2n = 26, 52.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : anti-inflammatory; Leaf juice is considered cooling and aperient; prescribed for children suffering from small-pox in doses of a tablespoonful or two, twice daily. Bruised leaves applied to contusions to relieve pain and swelling. Roots are given in fever. Spray of leaf decoction kills bedbugs by the Marma.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: -

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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://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18306110 - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200022026 - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Comb%20Rungia.html

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 : Lamiales
Family : Acanthaceae - Acanthus family
Genus : Rungia L.
Species : Rungia pectinata (L.) Nees.

Rungia pectinata (L.) Nees.
Rungia pectinata (L.) Nees.