Exacum bicolor
MH371 : Exacum bicolor Roxb.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 36 |
| Synonym | : | Exacum tetragonum Roxb.;
Exacum perottetii;
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| Plant Common Name | : | Bicolor Persian Violet, Avachiretta, Bara-charayatah, Habshi-charayatah, Udi chirayat, Cheti, Dodda Chirayutha, Koochuri, Sher-ri-takti |
| Plant Family | : | Gentianaceae |
| Description | : | Tall herbs, to 120 cm high; stems quadrangular, not or narrowly winged. Leaves to 7 x 1.5 cm, elliptic, narrowed to a broad petiole, acute at apex, 3-ribbed. Cymes terminal, corymbose; bracts 7 mm long, linear. Flowers many; calyx 9 mm long, wings 2 mm broad, lobes acuminate; corolla blue, tube short, lobes 20 x 8 mm, elliptic, acute; anthers 8 mm long, eglandular, filaments broaden at base. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Bori nallah |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The plant for the treatment of fever, malaria, and blood purification. |
| 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/264260
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Bicolor%20Persian%20Violet.html
- https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978_3_642_54010_3_10 |
| 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 |
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| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Asteridae |
| Order | : Gentianales |
| Family | : Gentianaceae - Gentian family |
| Genus | : Exacum |
| Species | : Exacum bicolor |