Plant Category | : | Herbs |
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 457 |
Synonym | : | Chrozophora plicata (Vahl) A.Juss. ex Spreng.;
Chrozophora burmanni Spr.;
Chrozophora parvifolia Klotzsch ex Schwf.;
Croton plicatus Vahl;
Croton tinctorius sensu Burm., f.; |
Plant Common Name | : | - |
Plant Family | : | Euphorbiaceae |
Description | : | A prostrate or ascending annual herb up to 50 cm, whitish or grayish-stellate-pubescent, sometimes somewhat scabrid. Petioles 0.5-2 (-4) cm long. Leaf-blades triangular-ovate or ovate, sometimes shallowly trilobite, 1-4 (-5.5) x 0.7-3 (-5) cm, obtuse or rounded at the apex, somewhat obliquely cuneate, rounded or ± truncate at the base, entire or shallowly crenate-sinuate, 3-5-nerved from the base, somewhat plicate-bullate above when young, flattening out later, evenly pubescent above, densely so beneath. Stipules linear, 2 mm long. Inflorescences up to 7 cm though commonly much less, leaf-opposed. Male flowers: pedicels 1 mm long; sepals lanceolate, 3 mm long, stellate-pubescent; petals elliptic-oblong, 3 mm long, lepidote without, pink; disc c. 1 mm diam.; stamens 15, united into a column 4 mm high, anthers (2-) 3-senate, 1 mm long. Female flowers: pedicels 5 mm long, extending to up to 2 cm in fruit; sepals linear-lanceolate, 1.5-2 mm long, stellate-pubescent; petals minute or 0; ovary 2 mm diam., densely stellate-pubescent; styles bipartite. Fruit rounded-trilobate, 4 x 7 mm., stellate-pubescent and not lepidote. Seeds ovoid-subglobose, 3 x 2 mm, minutely tuberculate-rugulose, pale grey. Fl. Per.: February-June (- September); Fr. Per.: May-September. |
Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The pounded stems or whole plants are applied to wounds to improve healing. The plant is also used in the treatment of jaundice and to purify the blood. An infusion of the seeds and leaves is taken as a laxative. |
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=250090883
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Chrozophora+plicata |
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 | : Rosidae |
Order | : Euphorbiales |
Family | : Euphorbiaceae - Spurge family |
Genus | : Chrozophora A. Juss - chrozophora |
Species | : Chrozophora prostrata |