MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH120 : Glossocardia bosvallia (L.f.) DC. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 260 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Throughout common in open grasslands, fields, on hill slopes | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Compositae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Pithari, Patthar Suva, Patthar-suva, seri, parpataka, kallu suseege, parpaataka, ghattarasva, phattar-suva, seri, patharasuva, Charak, Parpata, Pithari, Renu, parapalanam, parapalanam | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Bidens minuta Miré & H.Gillet Glossocardia linearifolia Cass. Glossocardia setosa Blatt. & Hallb. Pectis meifolia Wall. [Illegitimate] Verbesina bosvallia L.f. |
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| Description : | small annual herb, 10-20 cm tall. The plant is branched from the base and the branches are grooved. Alternately arranged leaves, 1.5 cm long, are pinnately cut in to linear segments. Yellow flowers are borne in heads carried on slender stalks, in leaf axils or at the end of branches. Outer 3 bracts are 3 mm long, 3 inner ones are 7 mm long, striped. Seedpods are 6 mm, brown, hairy. Flowering: August-December. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Healing sores and woundes, Pithari plant is used as an emmenagogue in medicine. In Ayurveda, the plant is used as a substitute for Oldenlandia corymbosa. The tribal inhabitants of western Maharashtra use a decoction of the plant as febrifuge. A paste of the fresh Pithari plant is applied to promote healing of sores and wounds. It has a bitter taste and fennel like odour. Besides serving as a medicinal plant Pithari plant is also used in culinary purposes. People of some states in India take Pithari plant as a vegetable. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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