Plant Category | : | Herbs |
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 1 |
Synonym | : | Cleome scaposa DC.;
Cleome papillosa Steud., nom. illeg.;
Cleome gracilis Edgew.;
Cleome linearis Stocks ex T. Anders.;
Cleome radula Fenzl.; |
Plant Common Name | : | Torthan |
Plant Family | : | Cleomaceae / Capparaceae |
Description | : | Annual herbs, strongly aromatic, about 10-60 cm tall. Stem erect, base woody, usually much branched, glandular or eglandular pubescent with setose scabrous hairs, branches slender, usually branched from the base. Leaves simple, broadly ovate-suborbicular, about 12-30 x 5-25 mm across, base cordate or rounded, margin ciliate, entire, apex retuse or rounded, green pubescent above, paler pubescent beneath, mibrib impressed above, slightly prominent beneath, lateral veins 2-4 on either side of the midrib, petiole pubescent, gradually shorter towards the shoot, subsessile to 20 mm long. Inflorescence racemes, slender, many flowered, lax and elongated in fruit, about 4-15 cm long. Flowers bisexual, actinomorphic, yellow, cream white to pinkish, about 3-4 mm across, bracteate at the lower flowers and ebracteate above, bracts foliaceous, pedicel filiform, slender, about 1-4 mm long, up to 8 mm long in fruits, sepals 4, equal, lanceolate-elliptic, valvate, free or slightly fused at the base, apex subacute, scabrous, glandular pubescent outside, about 1.5-2 mm across, petals 4, obovate-oblong, glabrous, about 2-3.5 x 1-1.5 mm across. Stamens 6, filament inserted on a discoid, glabrous, about 2 mm long, anthers ovoid. Ovary superior, bicarpellary, sessile, unilocular, about 2-2.5 x 0.5 mm across, stigma capitate. Fruit capsule, dehiscent, linear, about 20-30 x 1-1.2 mm across, glabrous or grandular, with persistent seed bearing replum. Seeds 15-25, orbicular or reniform, about 0.5-0.7 mm across, granulate, cleft fused between 2 ends, brownish black. |
Plant Location in Melghat | : | In 1994 at Behali In 1996 at Dharkhora In 1997 at Dhamangaon Gadhi-Chikhaldara Road. In 1998 at Makhala Road |
Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Plant decoction given in fever (Bhogaonkar and Devarkar 2002). |
Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
Plant's Current Status | : | Rare |
Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
Reference | : | Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD (1998) Addiions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants). Technical
Bulletin No. VII. The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat.
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/264176
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=107324 |
Reference | : | ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Additions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants)"; The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat (1998); Technical Bulletin No. VII PMID : ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some unique ethnomedicinal plants of Korkus of Melghat Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) "; Ethnobotany (2002); 14: 16-19 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 | : Dilleniidae |
Order | : Capparales |
Family | : Cleomaceae / Capparaceae - Caper family |
Genus | : Cleome L. - spiderflower |
Species | : Cleome papillosa Steud. |