Lepidagathis trinervis

Lepidagathis trinervis

Lepidagathis trinervis is a prostrae to suberect undershrub, up to a foot tall. Twigs are quardrangular, bristly or hairless twigs, arising from a woody rootstock. Leaves are stalkless, linear to narrowly lanceshaped, 2-4.5 cm long, 3-5 mm broad, hairless, 3-nerved from the base, lateral nerves weaker than midrib and run along entire margin. Flowers are light pink, in dense, one-sided stalkless oblong-ovoid spikes, 1-2 cm long, in leaf axils.

Uses

Bitter tonic, Rheumatic affections, Blotches, Swellings, Tea

Parts Used

Leaves, Flowers, Fruit.

Chemical Composition

The hydro-distilled essential oil obtained from the flowering aerial parts of Lepidagathis fasciculata Nees was analyzed by gas chromatography equipped with a flame ionization detector (GC-FID) and gas chromatography coupled with mass spectrometry (GC/MS). A total of 38 compounds have been identified, representing 91.2% of the total oil. The major constituents were delta-cadinene (14.4 %), gamma-curcumene (9.8%), sandaracopimarinal (6.6%), germacrene D-4-ol (6.1%), cembrene (5.0%), beta-calacorene (3.6%), ar-curcumene (3.3%), trans-4,10-epoxy-amorphane (3.2%), abietatriene (2.9%), and alpha-cubebene (2.8%). The oil was rich in sesquiterpene hydrocarbons (43.8%).

Common names

Language	Common name
Kannada	NA
Hindi	Musk Dana
Malayalam	Tran gha, Tran kantho
Tamil	NA
Telugu	NA
Marathi	NA
Gujarathi	Harancharo, Paneru
Punjabi	NA
Kashmiri	NA
Sanskrit	NA
English	Frilly Lepidagathis

Properties

Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.

Habit

Suffruticose

Identification

Leaf

Kind	Shape	Feature
Complex	Alternate	Sessile, muticose, acute, entire, lanceolate above, midrib beneath distinct, with a slender nerves parallel to it, near the margins, the margins scabrid, otherwise more or less glabrous.

Flower

Type	Size	Color and composition	Stamen	More information
bisexual	5	White with yellow	Bracteate, bracts ovate, spinous-cuspidate-glabrous, often minutely pubescent at the apex and margin, bracteoles linear-lanceolate, softly membranous. Calyx membranous, non-spinescent, 5-partite, unequal, linear-lanceolate, acute, white-pubescent. Corolla white, spotted with brown or purple, densely white-haired, tube short. Filaments white spotted with brown or yellow.	{{{5}}}

Fruit

Type	Size	Mass	Appearance	Seeds	More information
Caspsules ovoid-lanceolate, compressed, 2-seeded, yellowish-brown, shining, smooth seeds, brownish-black, rounded at the tip, with long mucilaginous hygroscopic hairs.	{{{2}}}	{{{3}}}	{{{4}}}	{{{5}}}	{{{6}}}

Mode of Propagation

Seeds, Cuttings.

How to plant/cultivate

Easily grown in a rich well-drained soil in a sunny position.

Soil type

Drained, Rich in nutrients.

Commonly seen growing in areas

Indroda Park

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