MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MC057 : Dioscorea pubera Blume |
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| Plant Category : | Climbers | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Dioscoreaceae | |||||||||||||
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| Synonym : | Dioscorea anguina Roxb. Dioscorea combilium Buch.-Ham. ex Wall., nom. nud. Dioscorea cornifolia Kunth |
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| Description : | Stem twining to the right, terete. Leaves very rarely alternate, to 7 x 3.5 cm, broadly elliptic, abruptly acuminate, 5-ribbed with coriaceous margins, glabrous. Male spikes 12 x 4 mm, solitary or 2-3 together, drooping; peduncle to 12 cm long, densely tomentose; bracts lanceolate. Flowers closely packed; tepals ovate, obtuse, glabrous; anthers oblong. Tubers 1 or 2, narrowly cylindric, rootless few, flesh lemon yellow]. Plant shortly pubescent throughout. Stem twining to right, lacking prickles, bulbils apparently sometimes produced. Leaves alternate to subopposite, ovate (occasionally suborbicular), cuspidate to shortly caudate, base shallowly cordate, margins cartilaginous, 8-16.5 x 5.2-11.5(-17)cm, persistently pubescent beneath, scattered hairy becoming glabrous above; petiole usually shorter than blade. Male spikes in groups of (1-)6-8 on leafless axes; axes 4.5-38cm, sometimes branched below, borne singly or in unequal pairs in axils; spikes 1-2.5cm, very dense, flowers borne to base; bracts minute. Male flowers brownish, globose, sessile; sepals ovate, subacute, keeled, 1.2x0.8mm, hairy on outside; petals slightly smaller, glabrous; stamens 6; anthers 0.3 x 0.2mm, slightly exceeding filaments. Female spikes single or paired, axillary or widely divergent from short, axillary axils; spikes bearing distant flowers throughout. female flowers: sepals and petals shorter and wider than males; ovary densely pubescent; style stout, 0.4mm. Capsules forwardly directed, apex retuse, 1.8-2cm, wings suborbicular, 1.5-1.8cm wide, pubescent in angles. Seeds surrounded by brown wings to 0.8cm wide, ± circular in outline | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Relieve colic pain | |||||||||||||
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| 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 : |
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