Plectranthus rugosus
Plectranthus rugosus
Plectranthus rugosus
Plectranthus rugosus
Plectranthus rugosus
Plant Category | : | Herbs |
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 427 |
Synonym | : | Isodon rugosus (Wall. ex Benth.) Codd;
Isodon plectranthoides Schrad. ex Benth.;
Lumnitzera densiflora (Roth) Spreng.;
Ocimum densiflorum Roth.;
Rabdosia rugosa (Wall. ex Benth.) H.Hara.; |
Plant Common Name | : | Wrinkled Leaf Isodon |
Plant Family | : | Lamiaceae / Labiatae |
Description | : | Shrub, aromatic, much branched, 30-160 cm. Stems erect with rather slender quadrangular branches, leafy, with an indumentum of small stellate dendroid hairs. Leaves broad-ovate, variable in size, 1.5-7 (-9) x 1-3 (-4.5) cm, rugose, usually green or dark above with few branched hairs and white below with a very dense indumentum of small stellate-dendroid hairs, crenate or crenulate; petiole up to 2.5 cms, usually much less. Cymes on slender lateral branches, lax, forming often leafy racemes. Pedicels slender up to 6 mm, erect or spreading. Calyx in flower 2-3.5 mm, indistinctly bilabiate, obliquely campanulate, with simple and/or branched hairs of varying length and density and usually numerous oil globules; teeth short, subequal, broad triangular; calyx in fruit up to 6 mm, curved, spreading. Corolla white tinged or spotted pink or violet, c. 6 mm long; tube short included in calyx, somewhat gibbous at base; lips diverging, lower longer than upper. Nutlets pale brown to dark brown, oblong, c. 1.5 x 1 mm, mucilaginous on wetting. Fl. Per.: March-October. |
Plant Location in Melghat | : | Chikhaldara and Makhala Plateaux |
Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The plant is used in traditional medical practices in toothache and is claimed to be effective as an anti-septic, a hypoglycaemic, an anti-Diarrheal and a bronchodilator. An extract of leaves is also used to treat hypertension, fevers, rheumatism and toothache. |
Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: alpha-pinene; limonene; abietatriene; abietatriene; totarene; phyllocladene; caryophyllene acetate; cubenol; viridiflorol; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (3): Caryophyllene; Limonene; Alpha-pinene; |
Plant's Current Status | : | Rare |
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=210000827
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/251289 |
Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
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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 | : Plectranthus L'Her - plectranthus |
Species | : Plectranthus rugosus |