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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MC052 : Dioscorea belophylla (Prain) Voigt ex Haines

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 502  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Liliales
Family : Dioscoreaceae - Yam family
Genus : Dioscorea L. - yam
Species : Dioscorea belophylla
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Climbers  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Dioscoreaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Jangli Matol, G- Nand- Nand-Kand, Spear-leaved Yam, chupri alu, turar, kadu genasu, jangli matol, sankhaluka
 
Synonym : Dioscorea nummularia var. belophylla Prain.
Dioscorea sagittata Royle, nom. inval.
Description : Tubers small, sub-fusiform. Stems glabrous, twining anticlockwise. Leaves usually opposite, simple, 7.5-13 cm. long, 2-9 cm broad, variable, ovate, cordate or hastate with round basal lobes or deltoid, entire, acuminate, glabrous 9-nerved; petiole 6.5 cm long. Male spikes 2.5-4 cm long, 1-2 together in the axils or sometimes forming leafless panicles; stamens 6, all antheriferous. Female spikes 5.5-12 cm long, solitary or 2 together, axillary. Capsule 2 cm long, 3 cm broad, obovate with a retuse apex or obcordate. Fl. Per.: September-October.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : ulcers, sores, wound, spasms, dysentery, diabetes and cancer; Tuber powder given in sex-related diseases. Tuber poultice applied on whitlow (infection at the base of nail) (Bhogaonkar and Devarkar 2002)
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : stigmasterol
mono-arachidin
1,7-bis-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-1E,4E,6E-heptatrien-3-one
behenic acid
demethyl batatasin IV
2,3-di-hydroxy-4,5-dimethoxybibenzyl
diosbulbin B
diosbulbin D
docosyl ferulate
7-bis-(4-hydroxyphenyl) -4E, 6E-heptadien-3-one
5,3,4-trihydroxy-3,7-dimethoxyflavone
tristin
protocatechuic acid
adenosine
Reference : ~ Aadil Mustafa, Aziz Ahmad, Aadil Hussain Tantray and Parvaiz Ahmad Parry; "Ethnopharmacological Potential and Medicinal Uses of Miracle Herb Dioscorea spp."; Journal of Ayurvedic and Herbal Medicine (2018); 4(2): 79-85 PMID :

~ Sanjeet Kumar, Gitishree Das, Han-Seung Shin, and Jayanta Kumar Patra; "Dioscorea spp. (A Wild Edible Tuber): A Study on Its Ethnopharmacological Potential and Traditional Use by the Local People of Similipal Biosphere Reserve, India"; Frontiers in Pharmacology (2017); 8:52 PMID : 28261094

~ Sheikh N., Kumar Y., Misra A. K., Pfoze L.; "Phytochemical screening to validate the ethnobotanical importance of root tubers of Dioscorea species of Meghalaya, North East India."; J. Med. Plant Stud. (2013); 1, 62-69 PMID :

~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some unique ethnomedicinal plants of Korkus of Melghat Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) "; Ethnobotany (2002); 14: 16-19 PMID :