MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH164 : Ipomoea pes-tigridis L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 330 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Convolvulaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Tiger Foot Morning Glory, Panchpatia, Vagh-padi, Pulichovadi, Punaikkirai, Pulichuvatu, Chikunuvvu, Anguli lota, Arti | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Convolvuloides palmata Moench Convolvulus bryoniifolius Salisb. Convolvulus capitellatus Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. Convolvulus hepaticifolius Spreng. Convolvulus pes-tigridis (L.) Spreng. Ipomoea capitellata Choisy Ipomoea hepaticifolia L. Ipomoea pes-tigridis var. africana Hall. fil. Ipomoea tamnifolia Burm. fil. Ipomoea tigrina Pers. Ipomoea tigripes Stokes Neorthosis tigrina (Pers.) Rafin. |
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| Description : | The annual stems twining or prostrate or sprawling, patently pubescent with rigid trichomes. Leaves orbicular to transversely elliptic in outline, palmately divided nearly to the base, (3-) 5-7 (-9)-lobed, the segments oblong to elliptic, attenuate to acuminate on both ends, acute to obtuse apically, pubescent with appressed or patent trichomes, 3-7.5 cm long, often wider than long. Flowers involucrate-cymose. Sepals lanceolate or the inner narrow-lanceolate, 7-12 mm long, pubescent. Corolla funnel-shaped, white, 3-4 cm long. Fruits capsular, ovoid, 8 mm long. Seeds gray tomentose, 4 mm long. Fl. Per.: August to October. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The mashed leaves are applied as a poultice on sores, boils, pimples, and tumours. The leaf powder is smoked to get relief from bronchial spasm. The entire plant is crushed and the juice extracted and take orally for treatment of or prevention of rabies if bitten by a rabid dog. A decoction of the root is considered purgative and is also administered as a treatment for haemoptysis. The seed is taken as a remedy for dropsy. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Beta-sitosterol caffeic acid isoquercitrin monoacetate isoquercitrin hyperin quercetin Dichroside A Dichroside B Dichroside C Dichroside D friedelin stearic acid operculins |
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Shubhangi Pawar and D A Patil; "Observations on folkloric medicinal plants of Jalgaon district, Maharashtra"; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (2004); 3(4): 437-442 PMID : ~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID : |
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