| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
| Synonym | : | Bremekampia neilgherryensis (Wight) Sreemadh.;
Haplanthus neilgherryensis Wight;
Haplanthus tentaculatus var. neilgherryensis (Wight) C. B. Cl.;
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| Plant Common Name | : | |
| Plant Family | : | Acanthaceae |
| Description | : | Profusely branched herbs, branches quadrangular, glabrous. Leaves 4-7 x 2-3 cm, elliptic, acuminate at both ends, glabrous, attenuate and decurrent at base into a petiole of 4-9 cm long. Spikes terminal, to 5 cm long, cylindrical, densely covered with hairy cladodes; bracts and bracteoles minute. Flowers in whorls; calyx 2 mm long, lobes filiform, hairy; corolla 10 mm long; upper lip 2-lobed and lower lip 3-lobed, hairy; stamens 2, free, anthers unequal, appendaged; ovary oblong, cells 4-6 ovuled, style slender, stigma linear. Capsule 7 mm long, oblong; seeds 6-12, thinly hairy. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book |
| Reference | : | ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
(2018 - 2019); Book 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 | : |
| Order | : Lamiales |
| Family | : Acanthaceae |
| Genus | : Haplanthodes |
| Species | : Haplanthodes neilgherryensis (Wight) R.B. Majumdar |