MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH101 : Blainvillea acmella (L.) Philipson |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 241 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Fairly common throughout among grasses on hill slopes | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Compositae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Kanghi, Paniculated Spot Flowers, Annual Para Cress, Para Cress Flower, Para Cress, | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Acmella linnaei Cass. [Illegitimate] Acmella mauritanica Rich. Bidens acmella (L.) Lam. Blainvillea alba Edgew. Blainvillea gayana var. lanceolata Chiov. Blainvillea hispida Edgew. Blainvillea latifolia (L.f.) DC. Blainvillea latifolia var. angustifolia DC. Blainvillea polycephala Gardner Blainvillea racemosa Gardner (Unresolved) Blainvillea rhomboidea var. lanceolata (Poir.)DC. Ceratocephalus acmella (L.) Kuntze Coreopsis acmella (L.) E.H.L.Krause Eclipta latifolia L.f. Pyrethrum acmella (L.) Medik. Spilanthes acmella (L.) Murray Verbesina acmella L. [Illegitimate] Verbesina lanceolata Poir. (Unresolved) (=) Blainvillea gayana Cass. Spilanthes acmella (L.) L. |
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| Description : | Herbs, annual. Stems erect, 40-60 cm tall, branched. Lower leaves opposite, with up to 1 cm petioles, blade ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 3-6 × 2-3 cm, both surfaces scabrid, base cuneate, margin sparsely serrate, apex acuminate; upper leaves smaller, usually alternate, ovate to ovate-oblong, 2-3 × 1.3-1.5 cm, base usually rounded. Capitula axillary or terminal, ca. 1 cm in diam.; peduncles slender, 15-40 mm, with spreading hairs; phyllaries 2-seriate, outer papery, green, ovate-oblong, ca. 6 mm, dorsally densely hairy, apex shortly acute or obtuse, inner ovate to oblong-linear, ca. 5 mm, sparsely pubescent, apex acute; paleae oblong-lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, dorsally pubescent, apex aristiform. Ray florets 1-seriate, yellow or yellowish white, lamina ca. 3 mm, apex 2-4-toothed. Disk florets campanulate, limbs 5-toothed. Achenes densely pubescent, those in female florets 3-angled, ca. 4 mm, those in bisexual florets compressed, ca. 5 mm; pappus short, unequal, 2-5. Fl. Apr-Jun. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Leaves are used in rheumatism, flowers are used for headache. useful in the treatment of malaria; | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | spilanthol desacetyl ovatifolin desacyl grazielic acid tiglate ovatifolin |
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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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