Heliotropium supinum L.
Heliotropium supinum L.
Heliotropium supinum L.
MH153 : Heliotropium supinum L.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 314 |
| Synonym | : | Piptoclaina supina;
Heliotropium ambiguum DC.;
Heliotropium capense Sw. ex Lehm.;
Heliotropium coromandelianum Raddi ex DC.;
Heliotropium europaeum Forssk.;
Heliotropium hirsutum E. D. Clarke;
Heliotropium malabaricum Retz.;
Lithospermum heliotropoides Forssk.;
Piptoclaina malabarica (Retz.) G. Don.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Dwarf Heliotrope, Prostrate Heliotrope, Spreading Heliotrope |
| Plant Family | : | Boraginaceae |
| Description | : | Prostrate branched annual. Branches brown-tomentose with dense appressed hairs up to 1 mm long. Leaves petiolate, greyish white with dense hairs; petiole up to 15 mm long. Lamina 10-20 x 5-12 mm, ovate to obovate or elliptic, cuneate to ± oblique, entire-undulate, obtuse, nerves impressed on upper surface. Inflorescence lateral and terminal, 2-7 cm long; flowers uniseriate. Calyx deciduous, ± 2.5 mm long, up to 5 mm in fruit, ¼th partite into ± obtuse lobes, densely hairy. Corolla tube 34 mm long, retroresely hairy to the outside, glabrous within lobes oblong, shallow, erect. Anthem c. 1 mm long, narrowed towards the apex, attached c. 1.5 mm from the corolla base. Stigma c. 0.6 mm long, conical; stigmatic ring prominent. Style ± stigma length, with few retrorse hairs. Ovary glabrous. Fruit globose, enclosed in the persistent calyx. Nutlets c. 2.5 mm long, ovoid in outline, glabrous, back rugulose and minutely tubercied.
Fl. Per.: December-January. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In drying ponds, shallow depressions, stream and river beds |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The pulped plant is mixed with water and applied to tumours. The pyrrolizidine alkaloids heliotrine and lasiocarpine have been isolated, and extracts have been tested as a control agent for Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, a chickpea disease, with limited success. eczema. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Heliotrine; Lasiocarpine; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=250084394
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Dwarf%20Heliotrope.html
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| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
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| 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 supinum L. |