Lepidagathis lutea
Lepidagathis lutea
Lepidagathis lutea
MH379 : Lepidagathis lutea Dalz.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 45 |
| Synonym | : | - |
| Plant Common Name | : | Yellow Lepidagathis, Pivla Bhuigend |
| Plant Family | : | Acanthaceae |
| Description | : | A suberect, 15-50 cm undershrub with almost glabrous, 4-angled branchlets from a woody rootstock. Leaves sessile, linear or linear-lanceolate, 2.5-5 cm x 2.5-5 mm almost glabrous, 3-nerved from the tapering base, acute. Flowers yellow, in axillary or basal radical clusters of 1-3, silky-pubescent, globose spikes; bracts variable, silky hairy, outermost ovate, 1.2-3 cm long, 3-nerved, sharply spine tipped, inner bracts membranous, smaller in size, spine-tipped; bracteoles ovate to obovate, c. 10-12 mm long silky-pubescent on both sides, spinescent. Calyx 5-lobed, lobes unequal, thick, silky-hairy on both sides, spinous tipped, outer wider and longer than the others. Corolla c. 12 mm long, tube abruptly truncately expanded, throat hairy, limb pubescent outside, upper lip entire or emarginate, lower lip deeply 3-lobed, lobes obtuse, ovary glabrous, 2-ovuled, style hairy. Capsule ovoid-lanceolate, c. 6 mm long, 2-seeded. Seeds oblong-ovoid, with long hygroscopic hairs. Fl. Per.: January-April. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Kelpani & along roadside form Harisal to Kolkaz |
| 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.
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Yellow%20Lepidagathis.html
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/266062
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=250084282 |
| 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 | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Asteridae |
| Order | : Scrophulariales |
| Family | : Acanthaceae - Acanthus family |
| Genus | : Lepidagathis |
| Species | : Lepidagathis lutea |