MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH112 : Cyathocline purpurea (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) Kuntze |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 252 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In the entire area,very common and abundant near water margins in stream and river beds,on wet rocks of certical cut faces of hill slopes,in drying ponds etc | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | IUCN Red List - Least Concern | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Asteraceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Bandhaniya, Gangotra, Gal phulle, | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Artemisia hirsuta Rottler ex Spreng. Artemisia paniculata Rottler ex Wight Artemisia stricta B.Heyne ex DC. Artemisia stricta f. diffusa Pamp. Cyathocline birmanica Gand. Cyathocline lyrata Cass. Cyathocline stricta DC. Dichrocephala minutiflora Vaniot Dichrocephala minutifolia Vaniot Tanacetum purpureum Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don |
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| Description : | An erect, strongly aromatic, glandular-hairy annual or biennial herb; stems usually reddish or purplish-tinged, branched from the base, glandular-pubescent. Leaves sessile, variable in size and shape, 1 to 2-pinnatipartite, 5-15 cm long, upper leaves smaller, segments serrate-dentate to lobed, glabrescent or thinly hairy. Flowers variable in colour, borne in terminal corymbose panicles composed of heads 4-5 mm across on 2-5 mm long peduncles; involucral bracts pilose, linear-lanceolate, acute, 2-2.5 mm long; corolla composed of marginal filiform flowers 1.2-1.4 mm long and disc flowers 2 mm long with glandular-hairy lobes. Achenes 0.3 mm long, pappus absent. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | cancer | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | santamarine 9-beta-acetoxycostunolide 9-beta-hydroxyparthenolide |
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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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