Leucas cephalotes
Leucas cephalotes
Leucas cephalotes
Leucas cephalotes
Leucas cephalotes
MH223 : Leucas cephalotes (Roth) Spreng.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 418 |
| Synonym | : | Leucas capitata Desf.;
Phlomis cephalotes Roth.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Head Leucas, bishkhapru, deldona, dhurpisag, goma, goma madhupati, gomo, guma, dronapushpi, tumba, deokhumba, deokumba, kumbha, shetad, shetvad, chhatraka, chhatrani, chitrak-shupa, chitrakshupa, chitrapathrika, peruntumpai, thumbai, tumbay-keere, pedda tummi, do na i me tog |
| Plant Family | : | Lamiaceae / Labiatae |
| Description | : | an annual herb with stems erect, unbranched or with few branches, 10-50 cm, leafy, hairy with spreading and adpressed retrorse hairs. Leaves are narrow oblong-elliptic, cuneate, nearly entire to slightly toothed, up to 8 x 2 cm, with long and short eglandular hairs denser below. Leaf-stalk on lower leaves is nearly-absent to about 5 mm. Flowers are borne in 1-2 distant spherical dense whorls on branches, 2-3.5 cm in diameter, up to 50-flowered. Bracts are numerous, imbricate, narrow, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, equalling calyces, ciliate on margins. Sepal cup is 1.2-1.5 cm, tubular, slightly curved, clearly nerved, with a slightly oblique mouth, distinctly hairy at throat, with eglandular and sometimes also with very short glandular hairs; teeth 10, subequal, shortly triangular, mucronulate, about 1 mm. Flowers are white, about 1.5 cm, upper lip bearded; lower lip clearly longer than upper. Nutlets are narrow oblong, bluntly trigonous, about 3 x 2 mm. Flowering: July-October. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | treatment for snake bite; The juice extracted from leaves is used to cure skin problems. According to Ayurveda, the plant is mild stimulant and diaphoretic and used in fevers and coughs. The flowers mixed in honey is used as domestic remedy for cough and colds. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Labellenic acid; beta-sitosterol; oleanolic acid; 7-oxositosterol; 7-oxostigmasterol; 7alpha-hydroxy stigmasterol; stigmasterol; 5-hydroxy-7,4-dimethoxy flavone; pillion; gonzalitosin I; tricin; cosmosin; apigenin-7-O-beta-D-(6-O-p-coumaryl)glucopyranoside; anisofolin A; luteolin; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (7): Beta-sitosterol; Apigenin; Flavone; Luteolin; Oleanolic Acid; Stigmasterol; Tricin; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0975357512800034
- https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Head%20Leucas.html
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/266222
- https://hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/CropFactSheets/guma.html |
| 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 | : Lamiaceae / Labiatae - Mint family |
| Genus | : Leucas R. Br. - leucas |
| Species | : Leucas cephalotes |