MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH169 : Cuscuta reflexa Roxb. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 339 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Cuscutaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Amarvel, Dodder, Akashbel, Nirmali, Giant Dodder, Akasavalli, Moodillathalli, Akasakarudakodi, Akhsi lota, | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Cuscuta elatior Choisy Cuscuta grandiflora Wall. Cuscuta hookeri Sweet Cuscuta macrantha G. Don Cuscuta megalantha Steud. Cuscuta pentandra Heyne ex Engelm. Cuscuta reflexa var. grandiflora Engelmann Cuscuta verrucosa Sweet Kadurias reflexa (Roxb.) Rafin. Monogynella reflexa (Roxb.) J. Holub |
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| Description : | Stem thick, branched, glabrous, or slightly pubescent, mostly not interlaced, succulent, light brown to dark brown. Leaves persistent, cup-shaped, fleshy, margin scarious, obovate obtuse, 1-2.0 x c.1.0 mm. Flowers arranged in paniculate cymes, ivory white, pedicellate, 5.5-7.5 mm long; pedicel 0.5-2.0 (-7) mm long, or obsolete; bracts leaf-like. Calyx lobes 5, fleshy, margin scarious, rounded ovate-obtuse, deeply divided overlapping at the base, 0.7-3.0 x 1.5-2.5 mm, tube c. 1 mm long. Corolla lobes 5, ivory white, obtuse, upright, spreading or reflexed, 1-1.5 x 0.5-0.7 mm; corolla tube 2-3 mm long; scales scarious, reaching the middle of the corolla tub, fringed, c. 1 mm long. Stamens 5, filaments linear, 2-3 mm long, fused filaments prominent like a vein in the petal; anther oblong, basifixed, 1-1.5 mm long. Ovary conical, fleshy, 1-2 mm long; style 1, thick, c. 0.5 mm long, or obsolete stigmas 2, unequal, conical to elongated, dark brown, 0.7-1.0 stun long; ovules 4, oblong-elliptical, c. 0.3 x c. 0.2 mm. Capsule 1-3 x 2-3 mm, globose-conical, brown, not depressed, without intrastylar opening, not circumscissile with a definite line of cleavage, i.e. dehiscing irregularly with remains of sepal lobes below, style and stigma at the top. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | headache, labour pain, bone fracture, fever, rheumatism, impotence, premature ejaculation, sperm leakage, frequent urination, ringing in the ears, lower back pain, sore knees, leucorrhea, dry eyes, blurred vision, and tired eyes. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | kaempferol-3-O-glucoside Myricetin benzopyrones astragallin quercetin quercetin-3-O-glucoside beta-sitosterol bergenin |
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| 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 : ~ Sonika Jain, Jaya Dwivedi, Pankaj Kumar Jain, Swaha Satpathy and Arjun Patra; "Medicinal Plants for Treatment of Cancer: A Brief Review"; Pharmacogn. J. (2016); 8(2): 87-102 PMID : |
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