| PlantID | 0052 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Botanical Name | Hedyotis corymbosa | ||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name | Parpat | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Part used | Whole plant | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medicinal Properties | Alterative, febrifuge and anthelmintic. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medicinal Use | Useful in gastric irritability, nervous depression, liver complaints and fever. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chemistry | Caffeine and fumeric acid. Air-dried plant: alkaloids and biflorone. Stored plants: the concentration of biflorone increases at the cost of biflorine. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cultivation | NA | ||||||||||||||||||
| Regional Habitat | Frequently occurs in cultivated fields and waste-places in sandy soil. Distribution: Jhunjhunu, Sikar, Tonk, Sirohi, Udiapur, Dungarpur, Jaipur, Bhilwara, Swai-Madhopur, Bharatpur, Kota and Jhalawar districts of Rajasthan. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Erect/diffuse, 10-30 cm high annual herbs. Branches obscurely angular, scabrescent, tinged purple. Leaves: opposite, sessile; stipules small, membranous, truncate, bristles few; lamina tapering at base, linear, linear-lanceolate, surface glabrous adaxially, scabrescent abaxially, apex acute, margins recurved, scabrous. Flowers: 0.2 cm long, axillary, 2-3 fascicled, often solitary; peduncles 0.5-1.2 cm long, pedicels 0.2-0.5 cm long; bracts at the base of pedicels 0.1 cm long, filiform; calyx- sparsely pubescent, 0.2 cm long; tube ovoid, 0.1 cm long; lobes 4, 0.1 cm long, triangular, acute, ciliate; corolla- tubular, 0.2 cm long, tube slender, lobes 4, oblong, 0.05 cm long, obtuse; stamens- 4, 0.4 cm long, filament short, included; style- 0.1 cm long; stigma bifid, hairy. Fruits: capsules globose, didymous, 0.2 cm across, top not protruded beyond calyx, glabrous. Seeds: pale-brown, 0.01 cm long. Flowers and fruits appears during August-November. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Hedyotis corymbosa