Acalypha malabarica Müll.Arg.
Acalypha malabarica Müll.Arg.
Acalypha malabarica Müll.Arg.
Acalypha malabarica Müll.Arg.
Plant Category | : | Herbs |
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 454 |
Synonym | : | Ricinocarpus malabaricus (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze; |
Plant Common Name | : | Malabar Copper leaf |
Plant Family | : | Euphorbiaceae |
Description | : | Annual herbs. Levaes alternate, 3-5 x 2.5-3.5 cm, ovate, acute, margins toothed, hispd on both sides; basally 3-nerved; petioles often longer than the lamina. All spikes axillary and sessile, short, up to 3 cm long, androgynous, finely pubescent. Male flowers ca 0.5 mm across, very few, clustered near the apex of spikes. Female flowers 2-2.5 mm across, 6-8 along the basal portion of the spike; bracts alternate, foliaceous, subcampanulate, funnel-shaped, folded, ca 5 mm across, shallowly toothed, bordered with long gland-tipped hairs along peripheral portion and margin, pilose, hairy or nearly glabrous, roughly coriaceous, gland-dotted, many-nerved. |
Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
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
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/245850
- https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Malabar%20Copperleaf.html |
Reference | : | ~ Seebaluck R, Gurib-Fakim A and Mahomoodally F; "Medicinal plants the genus Acalypha (Euphorbiaceae) - A review of their ethnopharmacology and phytochemistry"; J Ethnopharmacol (2015); 159: 137-57 PMID : 25446604 ~ 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 | : Equisetopsida |
Subclass | : |
Order | : Malpighiales |
Family | : Euphorbiaceae - Spurge family |
Genus | : Acalypha |
Species | : Acalypha malabarica Müll.Arg. |