Polygala persicariaefolia
Polygala persicariaefolia
Polygala persicariaefolia
MH344 : Polygala persicariaefolia DC
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 2 |
| Synonym | : | Polygala persicariifolia DC.;
Polygala arenaria Oliver.;
Polygala buchanani D. Don.;
Polygala figariana Webb.;
Polygala granulata Hochst.;
Polygala hypericoides Webb.;
Polygala persicariifolia var. wallichiana (Wight) Choc.;
Polygala punctulata Hochst.;
Polygala rufa Span.;
Polygala septemnervia Merr.;
Polygala spilophylla Steud.;
Polygala wallichiana Wight.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Polygalaceae |
| Description | : | Herbs, 10 - 65 cm high; stems terete, erect or decumbent, dichotomously branched at top or simple and arising directly from base, finely crisp-haired. Leaves alternate, subsessile, ovate-oblong, lanceolate, elliptic or linear-oblong, subacute or cuneate at base, acute or subacute and mucronate at apex, 15 - 65 x 3 - 20 mm, revolute or flat along margins, glabrous, sparsely pubescent or strigose along nerves below; basal leaves smaller. Flowers 3 - 5 mm long, rose-purple or reddish-violet with pink streaks, in 4 - 14 cm long terminal and extra-axillary or leaf-opposed, erect or patent racemes; pedicels 1 - 3 mm long, downwardly directed; bracts 3, lanceolate, 1 - 2 mm long, persistent. Sepals persistent; outer sepals elliptic-oblong, lanceolate, obtuse, subequal, 2.5 - 3 mm long, puberulous on margins; wing sepals rounded, broadly obliquely obovate to suborbicular, rounded at apex, 5 - 6 mm long, 4 - 5 mm wide, petaloid, glabrescent or puberulous on margins, 3 - 5-nerved, reddish. Petals pink, purple or yellowish with purple streaks, hairy inside; middle lobe ca 6 mm long, keeled with a crest of 2 - 3 bundles of linear membranous forked appendages; lateral lobes obliquely oblong, smaller. Staminal sheath adherent to petals, 1.5 - 2.5 mm long; free portion of filaments ca 1.2 mm long. Ovary obovoid, less than 1 mm long, ciliate along margins; style curved, widened towards middle, broadened at apex, ca 3 mm long; stigma oblique, lateral. Capsules elliptic, obcordate, symmetrical at base, very narrowly winged, emarginate at apex, compressed, 5 - 6 x 4 - 4.5 mm, membranous, marginally winged, ciliate along margins towards upper portion. Seeds oblong-ellipsoid, 3 - 3.5 x 1.3 - 1.5 mm, shiny reddish black, hirsute with dense silky light brownish or white hairs; caruncle hood-shaped, 3-lobed with short blunt lobes and very narrow sinuses. Fl. May - July; Fr. Aug. - Nov. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Khandukheda, Masoondi |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD (1998) Addiions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants). Technical Bulletin No. VII. The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat.
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/230791
- https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxon/id1211268/
- http://portal.cybertaxonomy.org/flora_malesiana/node/9972
- http://efloraindia.nic.in/efloraindia/taxonList.action?id=3926&type=4
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3326788/
- https://www.biolib.cz/en/taxonimage/id307820/?taxonid=1211268 |
| Reference | : | ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Additions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants)"; The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat (1998); Technical Bulletin No. VII PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Equisetopsida |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Fabales |
| Family | : Polygalaceae - Milkwort family |
| Genus | : Polygala |
| Species | : Polygala persicariaefolia |