Eranthemum roseum
Eranthemum roseum
MH199 : Eranthemum roseum
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 383 |
| Synonym | : | Daedalacanthus roseus (Vahl) T. Anders.;
Daedalacanthus roseus var. neesii C. B. Cl.;
Eranthemum roseum var. neesii (Vahl) Karthik. & Moorthy;
Eranthemum roseum var. parviflorum Santapau ex M.R.Almeida;
Justicia rosea Vahl.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Rosy Eranthemum, blue eranthemum, dasmuli, gulsham, nil vasak,ran aboli, dashamuli, dasmuli, ran aboli,nila-mulli |
| Plant Family | : | Acanthaceae |
| Description | : | A shrub up to 1.8 m tall. Leaves opposite, oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 12-20 cm long and 3.8-7.5 cm wide, lineolate on both sides, margins entire or crenulate, base tapering into petiole. Flowers blue or rose-coloured with a strong, fetid odour, borne in linear, lax, axillary and terminal spikes up to 15 cm long. Bracts 1.6 cm long, obovate, white with very prominent raised green nerves. Fruit (capsule) 1.3 cm long, clavate, pointed, glabrous. Seeds 3-4 mm in diam., hygroscopically hairy, densely so on the margins. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In Raipur, Semadoh, Dhakna and Chikhaldara ranges |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Leucorrhoea; anti-ulcer; |
| 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/229631 |
| 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 | : Scrophulariales |
| Family | : Acanthaceae - Acanthus family |
| Genus | : Eranthemum |
| Species | : Eranthemum roseum |