Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH402 : Lobelia alsinoides Lam.

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -

Synonym : Dortmanna alsinodes (Lam.) Kuntze.; Lobelia alsinoides f. elongata (Danguy) E.Wimm.; Lobelia alsinoides var. hirta (E.Wimm. ex Danguy) E.Wimm.; Lobelia chinensis var. hirta E.Wimm. ex Danguy.; Lobelia microcarpa C.B.Clarke.; Lobelia stipularis Roth ex Schult.; Lobelia triangulata Roxb.; Rapuntium alsinoides (Lam.) C.Presl.;

Plant Common Name : Chickweed Lobelia

Plant Family : Lobeliaceae

Description : Herbs, 5.15 cm tall. Leaves 1.5.2.0 x 0.7.1.5 cm, ovate or oblong, apex acute or obtuse, base cordate, margins crenate. Flowers blue, forming lax, terminal, leafy racemes. Capsules c 0.4 cm long. Decumbent herbs, rooting from lower nodes, stem 3-winged. Leaves 1-2 x 1-1.5 cm, ovate-orbicular, apex obtuse, crenate, petiolate; petiole 3 mm broad; upper leaves sessile, elliptic, acute, smaller. Flowers in terminal raceme; sepals 5 mm long, lanceolate; corolla blue,10 mm long, upper 3 lobes obovate, lower 2 lobes narrower. Capsule 6 mm long, glabrous; seeds trigonous, brown.

Plant Location in Melghat : Churakund Circle

Medicinal Use / Activity : Treatment of liver disorders like jaundice

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: -

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0):

Plant's Current Status : Red List Category - Least Concern

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Bhogaonkar, P.Y. and Dhole, P.A., "Further additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve (MTR) Maharashtra, India" Int. J. of Life Sciences, 2014, Vol. 2(2): 185 to 186 - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/230261 - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Chickweed%20Lobelia.html - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324138544_Pharmacognostic_studies_of_Lobelia_alsinoides_Lam

Reference : ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Dhole PA; "Further additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve (MTR) Maharashtra, India"; Int. J. of Life Science (2014); 2(2): 185-186 PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass : Asteridae
Order : Solanales
Family : Lobeliaceae
Genus : Lobelia
Species : Lobelia alsinoides Lam.

Lobelia alsinoides Lam.
Lobelia alsinoides Lam.
Lobelia alsinoides Lam.
Lobelia alsinoides Lam.
Lobelia alsinoides Lam.