Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Shrub
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Hemigraphis crenata (Benth.) Bremek. |
| synonym | Hemigraphis crossandra (Steud.) Bremek. |
| synonym | Hemigraphis elegans (Hook.) T. Anders. |
| synonym | Hemigraphis elegans var. crenata C. B. Cl. |
| synonym | Hemigraphis pavala (Roxb.) Kurz |
| synonym | Hygrophila pavala (Roxb.) Kurz |
| synonym | Ruellia crenata Benth. ex Hohen. |
| synonym | Ruellia crossandra Steud. |
| synonym | Ruellia diffusa Wall. |
| synonym | Ruellia elegans Hook. |
| synonym | Ruellia erecta Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. |
| synonym | Ruellia fasciculata Herb. Madr. ex Wall. |
| synonym | Ruellia latebrosa Roth |
| synonym | Ruellia obscura Russ. ex Wall. |
| synonym | Ruellia parviflora Hort. Tonell. ex Nees |
| synonym | Ruellia pavala Roxb. |
| synonym | Ruellia satpoorensis Wawra |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Habit: Straggling Undershrub
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Diffuse weak herbs or undershrubs; branches procumbent; stem densely white-hairy. Leaves opposite, 2-6 x 1-2.2 cm, ovate, crenate-serrate, apex acute or acuminate, base cuneate, bulbous based hairs on both sides; petiole 1- 3 cm long. Flowers in axillary or terminal, shortly peduncled, few-flowered, capitate spikes; bracts 10 x 2 mm, elliptic-oblong, 1-nerved, long-hairy, ciliate; hairs sometimes gland-tipped. Calyx 5-lobed, free near to the base; lobes unequal, ciliate, sparsely glandular-hairy; larger lobe 7-9 mm long, oblong-linear; other 4-lobes 5-7 mm long, linear. Corolla blue, , 12 mm long, funnel-shaped; tube broad above; lobes unequal, rounded. Stamens 4, didynamous, included; longer filaments bearded in the upper part; anther cells oblong. Ovary 2-loculed, hairy; style thickened below the blunt stigma. Capsule 4-6 mm long, linear-oblong, minutely pub-scent; seeds 6, yellowish-white, compressed, hairy.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Miscellaneous Details
Notes: Western Ghats, Evergreen Forests. Endemic to Central & Peninsular India
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Moist deciduous forests
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Description
Global Distribution
Central and Peninsular India
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Wayanad, Malappuram, Palakkad, Kannur
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
| Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
Maharashtra: Thane
Karnataka: Belgaum, Chikmagalur, Dharwar, Hassan, N. Kanara, Shimoga, S. Kanara
Kerala: Kannur, Malapuram, Palakkad
Tamil Nadu: Coimbatore
G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram
| Attributions | G. Renu, Sanjana Julias Thilakar, D. Narasimhan, Centre for Floristic Research, Department of Botany, Madras Christian College, Tambaram |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
| References |
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📚 Occurrence
No Data
📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Folk medicine
System Of Medicines Used In
Folk medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=5436
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=5436 |
| Contributors | |
| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=5436
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- Ruellia latebrosa Heyne ex Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 307. 1821.
- Hemigraphis latebrosa (Heyne ex Roth) Nees in DC., Prodr. 11: 723. 1847; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 423. 1884; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1018(715). 1924; Ramach. et al., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 3: 659. 1982; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 338. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 349. 1990; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 501. 1997; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 613. 2009.
Information Listing > References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=5436
- Flora of Tamil Nadu, VOL. II, 1987
- Ruellia latebrosa Heyne ex Roth, Nov. Pl. Sp. 307. 1821.
- Hemigraphis latebrosa (Heyne ex Roth) Nees in DC., Prodr. 11: 723. 1847; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 4: 423. 1884; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1018(715). 1924; Ramach. et al., Journ. Econ. Tax. Bot. 3: 659. 1982; Ramach. & V.J. Nair, Fl. Cannanore Dist. 338. 1988; Vajr., Fl. Palghat Dist. 349. 1990; Sivar. & Mathew, Fl. Nilambur 501. 1997; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 613. 2009.
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Lamiales |
| Family | Acanthaceae |
| Genus | Hemigraphis |
| Species | Hemigraphis latebrosa (Roth) Nees |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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