MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MC020 : Momordica dioica Roxb. ex Willd. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 211 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | On borders of fields | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Climbers | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Cucurbitaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Kartula, bristly balsam-pear, prickly carolaho, spine gourd, teasle gourd, ban karela, kartoli, | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Momordica hispida Dennst. Ex Miq. Momordica renigera Cogn. Momordica roxburghii G. Don Momordica sicyoides Ser. Momordica triloba Wight Momordica tuberosa Dennst. Ex Miq. Momordica wallichii Roem. |
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| Description : | Perennial climbers with unbranched, glabrous tendrils, dioecious. Root tuberous. Leaves broadly ovate, membranous, c. 6.0 x 5.0 cm, glabrous on both sides, deeply 3-5-lobed, lobes trianglular ovate or oblong, acute, with undulate or minutely remotely denticulate margin; petiole 1-3 cm long, puberulous. Male flowers 5-6 cm across, yellow, on 4-6 cm long peduncles; bracts large, sessile, entire, glabrous, often ciliated or villous on both surfaces, cucullate, suborbicular or reniform, partly enclosing the flower. Petals 2-3 x 1.5-2.5 cm, obtuse. Female flowers yellow, on c. 2.5 cm long, ebracteate or minutely bracteate peduncles; calyx lobes linear-lanceolate, 5-6 mm long, villous; corolla similar to male flowers. Ovary ovoid, covered with long and soft papillae. Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, 3-5 cm long, 2-3.5 cm across, yellow when mature, densely covered with soft spines, shortly beaked (rostrate) at apex. Seeds somewhat compressed, 6-7 x 5-6 mm, irregularly corrugated. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Applied in bleeding piles and urinary complaints. The root paste is applied over the body as a sedative in fever. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Ascorbic acid Beta-carotene Thiamine Riboflavin Niacin Momodicaursenol Lectins Beta-sitosterol saponins glycosides triterpenes of ursolic acid aspiranosterol stearic acid gypsogenin momordicin momordicafoetida Momordicaursenol |
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| Reference : | ~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 PMID : ~ Omolola Temitope Fatokun, Tosin Ejiro Wojuola, Kevwe Benefit Esievo and Oluyemisi Folashade Kunle; "Medicinal plants used in the management of Asthma: A review"; EJPMR (2016); 3(7): 82-92 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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