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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH139 : Vicoa indica (L.) DC.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 281  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Asterales
Family : Asteraceae / Compositae - Aster family
Genus : Vicoa
Species : Vicoa indica
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Compositae  
 
Plant Common Name : Sonkadi, Indian pentanema, sonsali, bichhloo, muguti soppu, sonkadi, pahenlo jhurjhuri; jimikki-p-pu, mukkutti-p-puntu, adavi proddu-tirugudu, Banjauri
 
Synonym : Pentanema indicum (L.) Ling.
Conyza kotschyi (Sch.Bip. ex Schweinf. & Asch.) Sch.Bip. ex Schweinf.
Doronicum calcaratum Roxb.
Erigeron linearis Spreng. ex DC.
Erigeron sanguineus Parsa
Inula indica L.
Inula leptoclada Webb
Inulaster kotschyi Sch.Bip. ex Hochst.
Varthemia kotschyi Sch.Bip. ex Schweinf. & Asch.
Vicoa auriculata Cass.
Vicoa leptoclada (Webb) Dandy.
Description : Sonkadi is an erect annual herb, 1-3 ft tall. Stems are branched in the upper part. Branches are cylindrical and leafy. Alternately arranged, oblong-lancelike leaves are stalkless, 3-8 cm long, and hairy. The leaves have rounded "ears" at the base. Yellow flower-heads, 1-2 cm across, occur singly on slender stalks. Ray flowers are 12-24, narrow, 3-toothed at the tip. Disc flowers are yellow. This flower can be easily distinguished from Sonsari by the number of "petals" (ray flowers) in the two.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : anti-viral; an antifertility agent; contraceptive;
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : epilupeol
epilupeol acetate
germacranolide
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Ethnomedicinal plants used in skin treatment by Korkus of Melghat Dist. Amravati (MS), India"; Life Sciences Leaflets (2011); 178-191 PMID :