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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH167 : Rivea hypocrateriformis (Desr.) Choisy

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 337  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Solanales
Family : Convolvulaceae - Morning-glory family
Genus : Rivea
Species : Rivea hypocrateriformis
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Convolvulaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Phandi, Common Night Glory, Midnapore Creeper, Phang, Sanjvel
 
Synonym : Argyreia bona-nox Sweet
Argyreia uniflora Sweet
Convolvulus candicans Roem. & Schult.
Convolvulus hypocrateriformis Desr.
Convolvulus hypoleucus Roem. & Schult.
Lettsomia bona-nox Roxb.
Lettsomia uniflora Roxb.
Modesta coriacea Rafin.
Rivea bona-nox Choisy
Rivea fragrans Nimmo
Rivea ornata Aitch.
Description : Twining subshrubs, stem white silky-pubescent. Leaves 3-4 x 3-6 cm, cordiform, apex obtuse, base cordate, subcoriaceous; petiole to 6 cm. Flowers axillary, solitary or in cymes; bracts lanceolate; corolla white, 7 cm across, salver-form; stamens 5, unequal, to 1.8 cm, anthers oblong, 4 mm; ovary oblong, 4 mm, 4-locular, each 1-ovulate, style 3.5 cm. Capsule conical, indehiscent, 1.5 x 1 cm, 1-celled; seeds 4 or a few. Lianas, the stems becoming woody with age, pubescent. Leaves rounded-cordate, obtuse apically, densely appressed pubescent below. Flowers usually solitary, occasionally subspicate. Sepals unequal, ovate, obtuse apically, 10-12 mm long, densely short villose. Corolla white, salverform, 6-9 cm long. Fruit indehiscent or tardily dehiscent, dry-baccate, 2 cm long. Seeds brown, glabrous. Fl. Per.: During rains in summer.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : anti-diabetic, anti-implantation, in the treatment of burns and piles, pregnancy irruption, as antidepressant, as anti-cancer and as an analgesic.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : isocoumarin
Reference : ~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 PMID :

~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :