MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH106 : Blumea mollis (D.Don) Merr. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 246 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Frequent in drying ponds,shade of walls, stream and river beds. | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Compositae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Soft Blumea, Suvattru mullangi | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Blumea dregeanoides Sch.Bip. ex A.Rich. Erigeron molle D. Don. |
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| Description : | Annual herbs, erect, 5-120 cm tall, with a tap root. Stems terete, soft-pilose with spreading hairs and glands, viscid-tomentose particularly on younger parts and on inflorescence axes. Leaves ovate-oblong, chartaceous, 9-11×3.5-4 cm, apex obtuse to apiculate, base attenuate, margins closely doubly serrate, densely silky-villous on both surfaces with soft multicellular hairs and glands, veins 5-7 pairs. Heads in terminal, narrow, compact, spiciform panicle, subsessile to pedunculate. Involucre campanulate, bracts in 3 or 4 series, outer ones shorter, linear-lanceolate, 3-4×0.6-0.8 mm, densely soft-villous and with multicellular hairs and glands; inner ones linear, 5-6×0.2-0.3 mm, margins scarious, ciliate. Central florets pinkish-purple apically, whitish or yellowish at base, 3.5-4.5 mm long, with 5 triangular lobes, lobes pubescent and with sessile glands. Outer florets 3.5-4.5 mm long, 2- or 3-lobed, glandular. Receptacle convex, alveolate, glabrous, 1.8-2 mm across. Achenes oblong, 0.8×0.2-0.3 mm, pubescent. Pappus white, 3-4 mm long. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The leaf of the plant is traditionally used for skin diseases and the boiled herb is used to treat Diarrhea. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | n-triacontane nhentriacontane 2,3-dimethoxyp-cymene chrysanthanone 2,4,5-trimethoxyallylbenzene methyl-5-isopropyl-1,2-methycyclopentane carboxylate caryophylleneoxide |
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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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