MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH013 : Polycarpaea corymbosa (L.) Lam. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 23 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | On rocky substrata on plateaux | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Caryophyllaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Oldman’s cap, Palllipoondu | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Achyranthes corymbosa L. |
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| Description : | Robust annual. Stems 10-30 cm, erect to ascending, branching from the base, white woolly at the base. Leaves opposite, or apparently whorled, 10-15 x 0.5-0.75 mm, linear to linear-subulate, 1-nerved, glabrous or nearly so when mature. Stipules c. 3 mm, lanceolate acuminate, ciliate. Flowers in compact, terminal cymes, with corymbose branching. Pedicels as long as or smaller than the sepals, woolly. Sepals 3-3.5 mm, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, entirely scarious silvery-white. Petals shorter than the sepals, emarginate. Capsule included in the sepals, dark brown. Valves with a narrow thickened yellow margin. Seeds small subtrigonous, smooth. Fl. Per.: February-March. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | anti-inflammatory, astringent, demulcent; plant-spermicidal, applied as poultice, prescribed in jaundice in the form of pills with molasses | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | alpha-1-barrigenol Camelliagenin Stigmasterol |
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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