Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH349 : Biophytum reinwardtii (Zucc.) Klotzsch

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
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

Biophytum reinwardti
Biophytum reinwardti
Biophytum reinwardti
Biophytum reinwardti