Rotula aquatica Lour.
Rotula aquatica Lour.
Rotula aquatica Lour.
Rotula aquatica Lour.
MS069 : Rotula aquatica Lour.
| Plant Category | : | Shrubs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 311 |
| Synonym | : | Rhabdia lycioides C.B.Clarke; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Aquatic Rotula • Hindi: pashanabhed • Marathi: machim • Tamil: ceppunerinji • Malayalam: kallurvanci • Telugu: pashanabhedi • Kannada: paashaanabheda • Khasi: La khowang • Sanskrit: ashmahabhedah, mutrala, pashanabhedah |
| Plant Family | : | Boraginaceae |
| Description | : | Stout branching shrubs; branched virgate, usually pinkish, glabrous. Leaves alternate or fascicled, 1-2 x 0.5 cm, oblong-oblanceolate, obtuse, sessile. Flowers solitary or in few flowered cymes axillary; calyx 3.5 mm long 5-partite, lobes lanceolate; corolla pink, 5 mm long, 7 mm across, campanulate, 5-lobed; stamens 5, anthers sagitate at base; ovary 4-celled, style filiform, stigma capitate. Drupe with 4, 1-seeded pyrenes, free, yellowish, smooth. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In rocky and boudry beds of major rivers like Sipna, Dolar Khapra, Khandu |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The roots possess astringent,sudorific, bitter and antiurolithiatic properties. Traditionally roots are used in renal and vesicle calculi, hemorrhoids, veneral diseases and diabetes.The roots also used for the treatment of piles and as a laxative. It exhibits cooling, bitter and astringent properties.
Diuretic and cardiotonic properties. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: vanillic acid; gallic acid; pcoumaric
acid; Allantoin; rhabdiol; Baurenol; kaempferol; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2): Kaempferol; Gallic Acid; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/230961
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Aquatic%20Rotula.html |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : |
| Family | : Boraginaceae - Borage family |
| Genus | : Rotula |
| Species | : Rotula aquatica Lour. |