Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH232 : Plectranthus rugosus Wall. ex Benth.

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
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

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