Habit: A gregarious shrub, upto 2m.
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Adhatoda arenaria Nees |
| synonym | Adhatoda betonica (L.) Nees |
| synonym | Adhatoda cheiranthifolia Nees |
| synonym | Adhatoda lupulina (E. Mey.) Nees |
| synonym | Adhatoda ramosissima (Roxb.) Nees |
| synonym | Adhatoda trinervia (Vahl) Nees |
| synonym | Adhatoda variegata Nees |
| synonym | Dicliptera lupulina Presl |
| synonym | Dicliptera trinervia (Vahl) Juss. |
| synonym | Ecbolium betonica (L.) Kuntze |
| synonym | Ecbolium trinervium (Vahl) Kuntze |
| synonym | Gendarussa arenaria (Nees) Steud. |
| synonym | Gendarussa betonica (L.) Nees ex Steud. |
| synonym | Gendarussa trinervia Nees ex Steud. |
| synonym | Gendarussa variegata Hochst. ex Nees |
| synonym | Justicia antidota Sm. ex T. Anders. |
| synonym | Justicia betoniciifolia Hort. Berol. ex Nees |
| synonym | Justicia betonicoides C. B. CI. |
| synonym | Justicia cheiranthifolia (Nees) C. B. CI. |
| synonym | Justicia lupulina E. Mey. |
| synonym | Justicia pallidior (Nees) C. B. CI. |
| synonym | Justicia pseudo-betonica Roth. |
| synonym | Justicia ramosissima Roxb. |
| synonym | Justicia trinervia Vahl |
| synonym | Justicia uninervis S.Moore |
| synonym | Justicia variegata (Nees) Martelli |
| synonym | Nicoteba betonica (L.) Lindau |
| synonym | Nicoteba trinervia (Vahl) Lindau |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
Growth Form
Shrub
Flower
In terminal or subterminal spikes, sessile; white with purple lines outside and throat of deeper colour. Flowering throughout the year.
Fruit
A pubescent capsule; seeds spinulose. Fruiting throughout the year.
Field tips
Bracts large, nerves conspicuously green.
Leaf Arrangement
Opposite-decussate
Leaf Type
Simple
Leaf Shape
Ovate-lanceolate, to obovate
Leaf Apex
Acuminate
Leaf Base
Acute-attenuate
Leaf Margin
Entire-crenate
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
Description
Found along roads, thickets and stream banks from plains to 900m. Common. Throughout the old world tropics.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1256
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1256 |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Honey bees forage on these flowers. Leaves are used as antidotes for venomous stings, bites, etc.
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Information Listing
References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1256
Information Listing > References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=1256
Floristic enumeration of Torna Fort (Western Ghats, India): a storehouse of endemic plants
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Journal of Threatened TaxaFoliicolous fungi on medicinal plants in Thiruvananthapuram District, Kerala, India
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Journal of Threatened TaxaThreat status assessment of Ceropegia anjanerica Malpure et al. (Magnoliopsida: Gentianales: Apocynaceae) from Anjaneri Hills, Nashik District, Maharashtra, India
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Journal of Threatened TaxaNo Data
🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Lamiales |
| Family | Acanthaceae |
| Genus | Justicia |
| Species | Justicia betonica L. |
📊 Temporal Distribution
📷 Related Observations
