Heliotropium ovalifolium
Heliotropium ovalifolium
Heliotropium ovalifolium
MH152 : Heliotropium ovalifolium Forssk.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 313 |
| Synonym | : | Euploca ovalifolia (Forssk.) Diane & Hilger; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Kunden, Grey Leaf Heliotrope, Siru thael kodukku |
| Plant Family | : | Boraginaceae |
| Description | : | Grey, hispid, erect or decumbent, perennial or annual herbs with a frutescent base, 1-4 cm high; stem and branches densely clothed with long silky adpressed and also spreading hairs. Leaves alternate, 1.5-2.5 cm x 5-13 mm, obovate or elliptic, obtuse and usually mucronate at the apex, rounded at the base, closely pubescent with adpressed, long silky hair on both surfaces, margins narrowly revolute, midrib impressed above and raised below; petioles channelled, up to 1.2 cm long, upper shorter. Flowers white, two ranked in binate or trinate, on slender, ebracteate 4-5 cm long spikes. Calyx 1-2.5 mm long, persistent, enlarging in fruits, hairy on both sides with short, adpressed hairs, divided almost to base; segments very unequal, one of them almost twice as broad as others, ovate, acute, densely ciliate; other segments small, linear-oblong, subacute, ciliate. Corolla 3 mm long; tube cylindric, scarcely swollen over the stamens, hairy outside, with a few club-shaped hairs on throat inside; lobes 1 mm long, ovate, oblong, acute, without intermediate teeth. Stamens inserted below the middle of corolla-tube; anthers lanceolate, acute, the connectives produced. Ovary pubescent; the style almost 0; stigma conical. Fruit more than 1 mm long, densely setulose with silky white hairs on the convex back, one-seeded, with circular inconspicuous depression on the inner facies. Fl. Per.: July-August. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In drying ponds and shallow depressions and on mud flats in river beds |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Poison, Sore, Syphilis |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: - ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | IUCN Red List - Least Concern |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://phytochem.nal.usda.gov/phytochem/ethnoPlants/show/8924?qlookup=Heliotropium+ovalifolium&offset=0&max=20&et=
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/229914
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=230002652 |
| 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 | : Lamiales |
| Family | : Boraginaceae - Borage family |
| Genus | : Heliotropium L. - heliotrope |
| Species | : Heliotropium ovalifolium |