MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH005 : Cleome chelidonii L.f. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 11 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Along pond margins and in open marshy grasslands | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | UNCOMMON | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Cleomaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Celandine Spider Flower | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Aubion chelidonii (L.f.) Raf. Cleome chelidonii var. pallae C.S.Reddy & V.S.Raju Cleome leschenaultii Schult. & Schult.f. Cleome schraderi Schult. & Schult.f. Corynandra pulchella Schrad. ex Spreng. Polanisia chelidonii DC.(Unresolved) Polanisia heterophylla Wall.(Unresolved) Polanisia leschenaultii DC.(Unresolved) Polanisia schraderi DC.(Unresolved) |
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| Description : | An annual, erect, branched herb, 15-80 cm tall, stems angular, with sparse, appressed, pale, stiff hairs with a bulbous base; leaflets 6-7 below to 1-3 apically, obovate, densely appressed-hairy, central leaflet up to 4(-6) cm × 1.2(-1.8) cm, base cuneate, apex rounded to acute, firmly herbaceous, petiole 8-10 cm in lower leaves, almost absent in higher ones; raceme elongated, pedicel 1.5-3 cm long, flowers actinomorphic, sepals elliptical, 2-4 mm long, petals 4(-8), mostly obovate, 7-14 cm long, base narrowed, apex rounded, glabrous, light red-purple, stamens 30-40(-55), anthers 1 mm long, yellow; capsule linear, parallel-veined, 6-8 cm long, glabrous, beak 1-3 mm long; seeds 2 mm in diameter, cleft open, warty with scattered scales, dull blackish. C. chelidonii occurs in fallow rice fields, sugar cane fields on heavy clay, and freshwater swamps, in Java below 100 m altitude, and is sometimes so abundant that the field is coloured reddish-purple by the flowers. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The heated sap from the leaves is dropped into the ear to cure infections. An infusion of the whole plant is used as a remedy for skin complaints. The root is used as an Anthelmintic. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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