| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 234 |
| Synonym | : | Gerontogea corymbosa (L.) Cham. & Schltdl.;
Hedyotis biflora var. corymbosa (L.) Kurz.;
Hedyotis corymbosa (L.) Lam.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Bhuti tida, Diamond Flower, corymbose hedyotis, flat-top mille graines, old world diamond-flower, wild chayroot • Hindi: daman pappar, pitpapra • Marathi: pitpapda • Tamil: kattucayaver, pappan puntu, parppatakam • Malayalam: parppatakam, parppatakappullu • Telugu: vernnela-vemu • Kannada: parpata hullu • Konkani: poripat • Nepali: piringo • Sanskrit: parpatah, parpatakah |
| Plant Family | : | Rubiaceae |
| Description | : | Annual herb, 8-10 cm tall, sometimes prostrate, intemodes 10-20 mm long. Leaves 8-20 x 2-3 mm, linear or elliptic-lanceolate, margin often recurved, sometimes with minute scabridulous hairs, glabrous or with appressed hairs on the lower surface and minutely papillose on the upper surface; stipules small, membranous, ending in a long and several short teeth. Flowers axillary, 1-4, rarely many. Peduncle 10-15 mm long, glabrous. Pedicel c. 4-5 mm long, enlarged in fruit. Flowers isostylous. Calyx 2-2.5 mm long, teeth c. 1 mm long, margins scabridulous. Corolla white or purplish; tube c. 0.5 mm long; lobes c. 1 mm long. Anthers sessile, inserted in the mouth of corolla-tube. Style glabrous. Capsule globose or pyriform, didymous, 1.5-2 mm in diameter, with appressed hairs. Fl. Per.: August-October. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In stream and river beds, Moist open grasslands as weed in fields |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The leaves are pounded, soaked in warm water and the liquid drunk to treat stomach disorders. They are used externally as a poultice to treat sores and sore eyes. The entire plant is used in decoction as an anthelmintic, antirheumatic, depurative, diaphoretic, digestive, diuretic, febrifuge, pectoral and stomachic. In India, it is a common ingredient in mixtures used internally to treat remittent fevers, gastric irritation, nervous depression and as a tonic. It is also used to treat jaundice and other liver conditions. The juice of the plant is applied to the hands and feet to cool them when the patient has a fever. The roots are reported to have vermifuge properties. They are often used as a tincture. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: biflorine; biflorone; Beta-sitosterol; oleanolic acid; ursolic acid; geniposide; 6 alpha-hydroxygeniposide; scandoside methyl ester; asperulosidic acid; deacetylasperuloside; asperuloside; rutin; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (5): Beta-sitosterol; Rutin; Ursolic Acid; Oleanolic Acid; Geniposide; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.mpbd.info/plants/hedyotis corymbosa.php
- https://ssjournals.com/index.php/ijpp/article/view/1185
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/230513
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Diamond%20Flower.html
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Oldenlandia+corymbosa
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18404335 |
| 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 | : Asteridae |
| Order | : Rubiales |
| Family | : Rubiaceae - Madder family |
| Genus | : Oldenlandia |
| Species | : Oldenlandia corymbosa L. |