MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH105 : Blumea membranacea DC. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 245 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Fairly frequent throughout in forest undergrowth and shady moist habitats | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Compositae | |||||||||||||
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| Synonym : | Blumea balansae Gagnep. Blumea paucifolia DC. |
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| Description : | Annuals, 7-100 cm. Stems usually simple, glandular-pubescent, sometimes with few longer eglandular hairs above. Leaves simple; petiole to 3 cm; blade obovate or lyrate, often oblanceolate in outline, with 1 or 2(or 3) pairs of lateral lobes, 2-13 × 1-5 cm, thinly herbaceous, pubescent on both surfaces, sometimes stipitate glandular adaxially at least in synflorescence, base narrowly attenuate, usually petiolate, margin denticulate (to shallowly dentate), apex acute or obtuse. Capitula rather few in narrow terminal panicles. Involucre ca. 4 mm in diam.; phyllaries purplish tinged, 6-seriate, 2-6.5 mm, glandular-pubescent, sometimes with few eglandular hairs, outermost lanceolate, inner ones linear. Receptacle glabrous. Corollas yellow; marginal florets 3.5-4.5 mm; central florets 4.5-5.5 mm, lobes with glandular hairs and sometimes very reduced eglandular ones. Pappus white. Fl. Feb-Jun. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The plant juice is used to relieve body pain. Leaf juice given in pneumonia. (Bhogaonkar and Devarkar 2002) | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some unique ethnomedicinal plants of Korkus of Melghat Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) "; Ethnobotany (2002); 14: 16-19 PMID : |
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