Plant Category | : | Herbs |
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 393 |
Synonym | : | Justicia japonica Thunb.;
Rostellaria mollissima Nees.;
Rostellaria rotundifolia Nees.;
Rostellularia japonica (Thunb.) Ellis.; |
Plant Common Name | : | Jagotmodon |
Plant Family | : | Acanthaceae |
Description | : | An erect, up to 50 cm herb, with quadrangular, zigzag, ribbed, strigose twigs. Leaves with 3–5 mm long, hairy petiole; lamina elliptic-lanceolate, 2.5–4.5 cm x 7–12 mm, scabrous above, strigose along the nerves banes cystoliths lineolate, entire, apex acute, base cuneate. Inflorescence sessile or stalked, cylindrical, (2–) 3–6 (–8) cm long, axillary and terminal, erect spikes. Flowers pink or purplish-pink, c.8 mm long; bracts elliptic-ovate, 3–4 mm x 1.5–2 mm, scarious with green midrib, pilose; bracteoles narrower and akin to bracts. Calyx usually deeply 4–lobed, rarely 3–lobed due to reduction lobes lanceolate, c. 4 mm long, scarious margined, long hairy. Corolla tube c. 3 mm long, narrow, glabrous outside, upper lip c. 3 mm long, slightly bilobed, hairy outside, lower lip ovate-suborbicular, c. 3 mm long, hairy outside, shorthy 3–lobed. Staminal filaments c. 2 mm long, basally dilated, anthers oblong 0.6–0.7 mm long. Ovary oblong, c. 1.5 mm long, pubescent; style filiform, c. 4 mm long, basally hairy. Capsule shortly stipitate, oblong, 3–4 mm long, hair' glabrescent. Seeds ± ovate, c. 1 mm long, rugose. Fl. Per.: June-August. |
Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The plant is diuretic, stomachic, expectorant, anthelmintic, diaphoretic and aperient; removes indigestion, biliousness, fever and burning of the body; strengthens the lungs, the teeth, stops vomiting; good in diseases of the spleen. Along with black pepper given in ague. Leaf juice is dropped into eyes in case of ophthalmia. rheumatism, inflammation and bronchitis. anti-cancer; |
Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Beta-sitosterol; Simplexoside; Helioxanthin; (+)-Sesamin; triacontanoic ester of 5-hydroxy justisolin; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (3): Beta-sitosterol; Helioxanthin; Sesamin; |
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=250084310
- http://www.mpbd.info/plants/justicia_simplex.php
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28163117 |
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 | : Scrophulariales |
Family | : Acanthaceae - Acanthus family |
Genus | : Justicia L. - water-willow |
Species | : Justicia simplex |