MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH015 : Portulaca quadrifida L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 25 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | On wet Mud flats in stream | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Portulacaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Chival, Chicken weed, Wild purslane | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Illecebrum verticillatum Burm. f. Meridiana quadrifida Poir. Portulaca anceps A. Rich. Portulaca diptera Zipp. ex Sparo Portulaca quadrifida var. meridiana DC. Portulaca repens Roxb. ex Wight & Arn. Portulaca. geniculata Royle Portulaca. linifolia Forssk. Portulaca. meridiana Linn. f. |
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| Description : | Diffuse annual, prostrate, glabrous, somewhat fleshy, rooting at nodes. Tap root somewhat woody, nodal adventitious roots fibrous, up to 3 cm long. Stem and branches filiform, internodes 2-20 (-35) mm long. Leaves opposite, sessile to subsessile, ovate-oblong to elliptic-oblong or ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 3-10 mm long, 2-3 mm broad, acute or somewhat obtuse, fleshy; stipular hairs copious, silvery white, 2-10 mm long. Flowers solitary terminal, yellow, 6-8 mm across, surrounded by a 4-leaved involucre and silvery hairs. Sepals equal, membranous, basally united into a minute tube half embedded in the floral axis, ovate-oblong, 3- 4.5 mm long, 2-2.5 mm broad, obtuse. Petals 4, united at the base, pandurate, 3- 4 mm long, 1.5-2 mm broad, obtuse, yellow. Stamens 8, adnate to petals; filaments filiform, 1.5-2.5 mm long. Carpels 4, syncarpous; ovary c. 2 mm, half sunk in floral axis; style c. 2 mm long, quadrifid, with 4 linear, reclinate stigmas. Capsule 3.5- 4.5 mm long, 2.5-3 mm in diam., oblong-conical. Seeds black, c. 1 mm, reniform, somewhat papillose. Fl. Per. Aug.-March. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Diuretic, to treat Rheumatism and gynaecological diseases, as a sedative, analgesic and cardiotonic, to treat fever, disorders of the urinary tract, worm diseases, as a tonic and choleretic, to treat dysentery, and to apply externally to ulcers, eczema and dermatitis | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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