MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH168 : Cuscuta chinensis Lam. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 338 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Cuscutaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Amarvel, Common Dodder, Makhanio, Chinese Dodder, | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Cuscuta americana Thunb. ex Engelm. Cuscuta aphylla Steud. Cuscuta capillaris Wall. Cuscuta carinata R. Br. Cuscuta exigua Herb. Par. ex Engelm. Cuscuta fimbriata Bunge ex Engelm. Cuscuta hyalina Wight Cuscuta maritima Makino Cuscuta sulcata Roxb. Grammica aphylla Lour. Grammica chinensis (Lam.) Hadac & Chrtek Pentake chinense Rafin. |
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| Description : | Stem slender, 0.6-0.8 mm across, pale yellow, glabrous, smooth. Flower in dense glomerules or very rarely arranged in small umbelliform inflorescence, 2-4 mm long; pedicel as long as or slightly longer than calyx; bracts narrowly triangular, keeled, entire nearly transparent. Calyx loose about the corolla, ± reaching the corolla lobes, calyx lobes triangular-ovate, thickened and fleshy towards the tops to form a carina, also more or less, thickned below the sinuses, slightly overlapping obtuse or acutish, 2-2.5 mm long. Corolla slightly longer than calyx, slightly globular, becoming more so as the fruit develops; corolla lobes triangular-ovate or oblong-ovate, spreading, acute or obtuse fleshy with or without a short carina towards the tip, ± equal or shorter than the tube, tip often inflexed. Stamens nearly half the length of corolla lobes; filament flat, pale, longer than the anther; anther ovate-cordate, yellow, scale large; reaching the base of the filaments, fringed with long or medium length processes. Ovary depressed-globose; style 2 stout or slender, thin, divergent, as long m or slightly longer than the ovary; stigma capitate. Fruit a capsule, flattened to globose, c. 3 mm across, membranous, depressed, dehiscing at the base by an uneven, transverse suture, surmounted by corolla and styles. Seeds 2-4, in each eapsule, 1.25 nun long, pale brown, with narrow oblong hilum. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | seeds used for the treatment of autoimmune diseases; improving the differentiation and proliferation of osteoblasts; preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases; Aphrodisiac; Demulcent; Diaphoretic; Hepatic; Kidney; Ophthalmic; Tonic; | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | quercetin 3-O-beta-D-galactoside-7-O-beta-D-glucoside quercetin 3-O-beta-D-apiofuranosyl-(1-->2)-beta-D-galactoside hyperoside isorhamnetin kaempferol quercetin d-sesamin 9(R)-hydroxy-d-sesamin beta-sitosterol d-pinoresinol daucosterol Hyperin |
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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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