Cephalostigma schimperi Hochst. ex A.Rich.
Cephalostigma schimperi Hochst. ex A.Rich.
MH141 : Cephalostigma schimperi Hochst. ex A.Rich.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 283 |
| Synonym | : | Wahlenbergia erecta (Roth ex Roem. & Schult.);
Wahlenbergia perotifolia;
Cephalostigma flexuosum;
Cephalostigma erectum;
Cephalostigma schimperi;
Lightfootia arenaria; |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Campanulaceae |
| Description | : | An erect much-branched hispidly pilose annual, from a few inches to a foot or more high. Branches slender, terete or slightly angular. Leaves alternate, sessile, linear-lanceolate to broadly oval or elliptical, rarely exceeding an inch in length, entire or undulate-dentate and having a white cartilaginous margin, densely pilose when young, but becoming nearly glabrous with age, gradually smaller upwards and passing into minute bracts. Flowers in racemose panicles, very numerous, larger than in either of the other species, solitary, on slender pedicels in the axils of the upper leaves and bracts. Calyx 2–3 lines long, tube densely hispidly pilose; lobes about equalling the tube, glabrous, erect, lanceolate, acute, with a prominently thickened margin. Petals linear-lanceolate, 2–3 lines long. Capsule hemispherical, hispid. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In Koktu vally, Rangubeli |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Not Common |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://plants.jstor.org/compilation/Cephalostigma.schimperi |
| 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 | : Asterales |
| Family | : Campanulaceae |
| Genus | : Cephalostigma |
| Species | : Cephalostigma schimperi Hochst. ex A.Rich. |