MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MC064 : Smilax zeylanica L. |
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| Plant Category : | Climbers | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | SMILACACEAE | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Kumarika • Hindi: Kumarika, Jangli aushbah, Bhitura • Mizo: Kaitha • Marathi: Ghotvel • Tamil: ayadi, malaittamarai, tirunamappalai, kal tamarai • Malayalam: kaltamara, karivilanti • Telugu: Kondadantena • Kannada: kaadu hambu, kaadu hambu thaavare • Bengali: Kumarika • Oriya: mootrilata • Sanskrit: Vanamadhusnahi | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Smilax macrophylla Smilax zeylanica |
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| Description : | an armed or unarmed climber. Leaves leathery, shining, 7-15 x 4-11 cm, broadly ovate to elliptic, base rounded or shortly wedge-shaped; 3-5-nerved. Leaf stalk 1.5 cm long, base sheathing, with tendrils at the end. Flowers white, in dense umbels in leaf axils, 1-3 on a common peduncle. Bracts ovate. Perianth recurved in mature flowers, outer 3 segments, 4 mm long, oblong, inner narrower. Stamens about as long as the perianth. It is found from the Himalayan region in the north to Peninsular India. Flowering: January-April. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The roots of Kumarika are used for veneral diseases. Also applied in rheumatic swellings and given in urinary complaints and dysentery. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | DIOSGENIN |
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| Reference : | ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
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