| PlantID | 0031 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Botanical Name | Borreria articularis | ||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name | Madanaghanti | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Part used | Roots | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medicinal Properties | Alterative, demulcent | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medicinal Use | Roots are useful in diarrhoea and dysentery. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chemistry | Seeds: Isorhamnetin. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cultivation | NA | ||||||||||||||||||
| Regional Habitat | Commonly found and grows during rainy season throughout the plains in waste-places and cultivated fields. Distribution: Ganganagar, Jhunjhunu, Jodhpur, Alwar, Nagaur, Sirohi, Udaipur, Dungarpur, Jaipur, Bhilwara, Bharatpur, Kota and Jhalawar districts of Rajasthan. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Annual herbs, stiff hairy, branches 3-25 cm long. Stem: thickened at nodes, angles hairy, purple tinged. Leaves: sub-sessile, attenuate at base, 0.9-3.9 x 0.3-1.4 cm, glabrous abaxially, scabrid-pubescent adaxially, veins prominent abaxially, apex acute, margins scabrid. Flowers: sessile, 4-6 in a stipular cup; bracts lanceolate-subulate, hyaline; calyx 4-lobbed, tube narrowly campanulate, teeth reflexed nearly as long as the tube, linear-lanceolate, hairy abaxially, acute, pointed; corolla pinkish, infundibuliform; tube hairy within at base, hairs in a ring; lobes oblong, acute, bristly on the back near the tip; stigma bifid. Fruits: capsules oblong, 0.2-0.3 cm long, apiculate. Seeds: finely granulate. Flowers appears during August-January and fruits appears in May. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Borreria articularis