Biophytum reinwardti
Biophytum reinwardti
Biophytum reinwardti
Biophytum reinwardti
Plant Category | : | Herbs |
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 7 |
Synonym | : | Oxalis gracilenta Kurz.;
Oxalis reinwardtii Zucc.;
Oxalis sensitiva Zucc.; |
Plant Common Name | : | Reinwardt's Tree Plant, Horamuchhaka, Mothi lajwanti, Lajjalu |
Plant Family | : | Oxalidaceae |
Description | : | Annuals up to 15 cm long. Leaves 12 - 17 jugate; rachis 4 - 7.5 cm, sparsely puberulous; leaflets overlapping, terminal largest, to 13 x 5 mm, asymmetric, obovate. Flowers umbellate in many flowered axillary peduncles; pedicels to 6 mm long; bracts ovate-attenuate, 1 - 1.5 mm long. Sepals 2 - 2.5 x 1 - 1.25 mm, ovate, acute-acuminate at apex, 7-nerved, half as long as petals in flower, 2/3 as long as in fruits. Petals yellow, 3.5 - 4.5 mm long, elliptic to oblanceolate, emarginated at apex; claw greenish, limb yellow. Fruits 3 - 3.5 x 2 - 2.5 mm, glandular hairy on the ribs; seeds 1 - 2 per cell, to 1.2 x 0.8 mm, transversely ridged and tubercled. |
Plant Location in Melghat | : | Common at Semadoh |
Medicinal Use / Activity | : | cough, wounds, fever, |
Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: palmitate; lupeol; beta-sitosterol;linoleic acid; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2): Lupeol; Beta-sitosterol; |
Plant's Current Status | : | - |
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://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Reinwardt%27s%20Tree%20Plant.html
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/264367
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/263754
- http://nopr.niscair.res.in/bitstream/123456789/42585/1/IJCB%2056B%288%29%20880_889.pdf |
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 : |
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 | : Oxalidales |
Family | : Oxalidaceae - Wood-Sorrel family |
Genus | : Biophytum |
Species | : Biophytum reinwardti |