Orthosiphon rubicundus
Orthosiphon rubicundus
Orthosiphon rubicundus
Orthosiphon rubicundus
Orthosiphon rubicundus
Orthosiphon rubicundus
Orthosiphon rubicundus
MH230 : Orthosiphon rubicundus (D.Don) Benth.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 425 |
| Synonym | : | Lumnitzera virgata (D.Don) Spreng.;
Ocimum mollissimum Wall. ex Hook.f.;
Ocimum rubicundum Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don
Ocimum tuberosum Roxb.;
Ocimum virgatum Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don, nom. illeg.;
Orthosiphon atacorensis A.Chev., pro syn.;
Orthosiphon pascuensis G.Taylor;
Orthosiphon rubicundus hohenackeri Hook.f.;
Orthosiphon rubicundus var. canescens Benth.;
Orthosiphon rubicundus var. macrocarpus Prain;
Orthosiphon rubicundus var. mollissimus Benth.;
Orthosiphon rubicundus var. rigidus Benth.;
Orthosiphon salagensis Baker;
Orthosiphon virgatus (D.Don) Benth.;
Orthosiphon xylorrhizus Briq.;
Plectranthus tuberosus Roxb. ex Benth., pro syn.;
Plectranthus virgatus D.Don.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Red Java Tea |
| Plant Family | : | Lamiaceae / Labiatae |
| Description | : | Perennial herb with a woody rootstock. Stems erect, slender, quadrangular, leafy below, simple or branched, 15-50 cm, with an indumentum of short spreading hairs. Leaves obovate to oblong-elliptic, 4-8 x 1-3 cm, inconspicuously gland-dotted, crenulate to serrulate, cuneate, sessile, apex rounded or acute, with short multicellular hairs or glabrescent. Inflorescence unbranched or branched. Verticillasters 10-20, forming long rather slender racemes, 4-8-flowered, distant. Bracts 2-2.5 mm, ovate. Pedicels 1.5-3 mm. Calyx tubular, c. 4.5 mm in flower, expanding in fruit to 9-10 mm, deflexed and curved, tubular campanulate; throat glabrous; lateral teeth in fruit broadly ovate-triangular, c. 1.5 mm; lower teeth narrow triangular-subulate, c. 2.5 mm. Corolla white or pink, c. 12 mm; tube clearly exserted beyond calyx teeth. Stamens included. Nutlets ovoid-globose, 1.5 x 1.2 mm apically rounded, finely punctulate, mucilaginous on wetting. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In Chikhaldara, Semadoh and Akot ranges |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | traditional medicine |
| 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
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200019924
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/266263
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Red%20Java%20Tea.html
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/289539373_A_Review |
| Reference | : | ~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 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 | : Lamiaceae / Labiatae - Mint family |
| Genus | : Orthosiphon |
| Species | : Orthosiphon rubicundus |