Mecardonia procumbens (Mill.) Small
Mecardonia procumbens (Mill.) Small
Mecardonia procumbens (Mill.) Small
Mecardonia procumbens (Mill.) Small
MH185 : Mecardonia procumbens (Mill.) Small
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 359 |
| Synonym | : | Mecardonia dianthera Pennell;
Mecardonia peduncularis (Benth.) Small;
Mecardonia tenuis Small;
Mecardonia vandellioides auct. non (Kunth) Pennell.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Baby Jump Up, Bacopa, Mecardonia, makardana |
| Plant Family | : | Plantaginaceae |
| Description | : | Diffuse herbs; stem 4-angled. Leaves 1-1.5 x 0.4-0.9 cm, ovate-lanceolate, base acute, margin crenate-serrate, apex acute, penninerved, subsessile. Flowers axillary, solitary; pedicles to 1 cm long, bractioles 2, c. 4 mm long, oblong. Calyx deeply 5-partite, lobes unequal; outer 3 c. 6 x 3 mm, ovate-lanceolate; inner 2 c. 4 x 1 mm, narrower. Corolla yellow, c. 7 mm long, obscurely 2-lipped, lobes unequal. Stamens 4, didynamous; anther cells stipitate. Stigma lamellate. Capsule to 6 x 2 mm, oblong-cylindric, 2-valved, included in the calyx. Seeds with testa reticulate. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | On Chikhaldara, Kolkaz, Sipna river bed |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Wounds |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/230348 |
| 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 | : Plantaginaceae |
| Genus | : Mecardonia Ruiz & Pav. - mecardonia |
| Species | : Mecardonia procumbens (Mill.) Small |