Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH211 : Lepidagathis cristata Willd.

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 395

Synonym : Acanthus cristatus (Willd.) Nees; Lepidagathis cristata var. latifolia Nees; Lepidagathis mitis Dalz.; Lepidagathis mitis var. latifolia (Nees) M.R.Almeida Lepidagathis mitis var. subarmata C. B. Cl.; Lepidagathis rupestris Bedd.; Lepidagathis shuteri T. Anders.; Lepidagathis subarmata Gamble; Ruellia radiciflora Vahl ex Nees; Selago acaulis Herb. Russ. ex Nees;

Plant Common Name : Kumbhi, Karappan poondu, Crested Lepidagathis, Bhu Terada

Plant Family : Acanthaceae

Description : a perennial herb, with almost no stem. Branches, 20 cm long, arise out of a globose head on the ground, and spread out. Leaves are stalkless, 3-6 x 0.5-1 cm, linear-lanceshaped, velvet-hairy, pointed at both ends, margin entire to toothed. Flowers are also arise stalkless from this globose head. Flowers are pale pink, 2-lipped. The upper lip is notched, and the lower lip is divided into 3 lobes. It appears in dry places and waste lands.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : Skin diseases, Tonic, fever, inflammations, malaria, skin itch, burns and wounds.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Cristatin A; Cycloartenol;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0):

Plant's Current Status : Rare, Endemic.

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/266059 - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Crested%20Lepidagathis.html - https://www.journals.kei.org/index.php/mra/article/view/1047 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11738419

Reference : ~ Afzal K, Uzair M, Chaudhary BA, Ahmad A, Afzal S and Saadullah M; "Genus Ruellia: Pharmacological and Phytochemical importance in Ethnopharmacology"; Acta Pol Pharm (2015); 72(5): 821-27 PMID : 26665388

~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ RLS Sikarwar, Bharat Pathak & Anil Jaiswal; "Some unique ethnomedicinal perceptions of tribal communities of Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh"; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (2008); 7(4): 613-617 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 : Lepidagathis
Species : Lepidagathis cristata Willd.

Lepidagathis cristata Willd.
Lepidagathis cristata Willd.
Lepidagathis cristata Willd.
Lepidagathis cristata Willd.