Chrozophora rottleri
Chrozophora rottleri
Chrozophora rottleri
Chrozophora rottleri
MH256 : Chrozophora rottleri (Geiseler) A.Juss. ex Spreng.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 458 |
| Synonym | : | Chrozophora plicata var. rottleri (Geiseler) Müll.Arg.;
Croton rottleri Geiseler.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Suryavarti, Rottler's Chrozophora, shadevi, suryavarti, Purapirakkai, erra miriyamu, guruguchettu, linga mirapa, lingamenasu, survarli, chotaki hunkatath, suryawarta , suryavarta |
| Plant Family | : | Euphorbiaceae |
| Description | : | Annual herbs, prostrate or ascending; main stem up to 50 cm long, stellate-pubescent or at times scabrid. Leaves alternate, 2-5 x 1-4 cm, rounded or obtuse at apex, rounded or subtruncate at base, entire or shallowly crenate-sinuate, 3-5-veined from base, somewhat bullate above when young, becoming less so with age, pubescent above, densely so beneath; petiole 1-4 cm long, densely stellate-pubescent; stipules 2 mm long, linear. Inflorescence 1-5 cm long, leaf-opposed. Male flowers: pedicels 1 mm long; sepals c. 3 mm long, lanceolate, stellate-pubescent; petals pink, 3 mm long, elliptic-oblong, lepidote without; stamens 15, united into 4 mm tall column; anthers 1 mm long. Female flowers: pedicels c. 5 mm long, extending up to 1.5 cm or more in fruit; sepals 1.5-2 mm long, linear-lanceolate, stellate-pubescent; petals minute or absent. Ovary 2 mm diameter, densely stellate-pubescent; styles 1-1.5 mm long, bifid almost from base, stellate-pubescent without, densely papillose within. Fruit 4 x 7 mm, rounded, 3-lobed, stellate-pubescent; seeds 3-3.5 x 2-2.5 mm, globose-ovoid, grey. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | cough and colds; Wound healing; Jaundice and to purify blood; Laxative, Antihelmintic activity; |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: linoleate; coumarin; scopoletin; ricinine; 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/229176
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3252720/ |
| 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 | : Rosidae |
| Order | : Euphorbiales |
| Family | : Euphorbiaceae - Spurge family |
| Genus | : Chrozophora A. Juss - chrozophora |
| Species | : Chrozophora rottleri |