Commelina paludosa
Commelina paludosa
Commelina paludosa
MH296 : Commelina paludosa Blume
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 517 |
| Synonym | : | Commelina donii A.Dietr.;
Commelina obliqua Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don, nom. illeg.;
Commelina paludosa f. pedunculata Qaiser & Jafri.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Swamp Dayflower |
| Plant Family | : | Commelinaceae |
| Description | : | Herbs perennial. Stems often erect, simple or sometimes branched distally, to 1 m, glabrous or sparsely hispidulous. Leaves sessile; leaf sheath densely brown hispid at mouth and in a line on 1 side, sometimes either glabrous with only a few hairs at mouth or hirsute throughout; leaf blade lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, 7--20 × 2--7 cm, glabrous on both surfaces or adaxially granular hairy and abaxially hirsute. Involucral bracts often 4--10, forming terminal heads, sessile, funnelform, ca. 2 × 1.5--2 cm, glabrous, proximal margins connate, apex acute or shortly so. Cincinnus 1; peduncle ca. 1.2 cm; flowers 1 to several, nearly included in involucral bracts; pedicels ca. 7 mm, twisted. Sepals 3--6 mm, membranous. Petals blue, 4.5--8 mm. Capsule ovoid-globose, trigonous, ca. 4 mm, 3-valved. Seeds 1 per valve, dark brown, ellipsoid, ca. 3.5 mm, slightly flattened, finely reticulate. Fl. Aug--Oct, fr. Oct--Apr. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Along ponds stream and river margins |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The plant is refrigerant and laxative; useful in strangury and costiveness. The root is useful in vertigo, fevers and bilious affections. The leaf juice is taken by Chakmas for the treatment of dysentery. |
| 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
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Swamp%20Dayflower.html
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/229266
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200027376 |
| 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 | : Commelinidae |
| Order | : Commelinales |
| Family | : Commelinaceae - Spiderwort family |
| Genus | : Commelina L. - dayflower |
| Species | : Commelina paludosa |