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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH240 : Alternanthera pungens Kunth

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 436  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Caryophyllales
Family : Amaranthaceae - Amaranth family
Genus : Alternanthera Forssk. - joyweed
Species : Alternanthera pungens Kunth - khakiweed
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Amaranthaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Khaki weed; Creeping Chaff weed;
 
Synonym : Achyranthes leiantha (Seub.) Standl.
Achyranthes repens L.
Alternanthera achyrantha (L.) R. Br. ex Sweet
Alternanthera repens (L.) Link, non J.F. Gmel.
Achyranthes leiantha (Seub.) Standl.
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Alternanthera achyrantha R.Br. ex Sweet
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Bucholzia spinescens Gillies ex Moq.
Celosia echinata Humb. & Bonpl. ex Schult.
Desmochaeta sordida Bunbury
Guilleminea procumbens Rojas Acosta
Illecebrum pungens (Kunth) Spreng.
Pityranthus crassifolius Mart.
Pupalia sordida Moq.
Telanthera pungens (Kunth) Moq.
Description : Prostrate herbs. Leaves to 1.5 x 1 cm, deltoid to obovate, apex obtuse, base narrowed, short, glabrous. Spikes to 10 x 6 mm, 2-3 together, axillary, sessile; bracts and bracteoles equal, 5 mm long, scarious, aristate. Flowers densely packed; tepals 5, outer three larger, 5 mm long, lanceolate, aristate, one oblong, obtuse, inner smaller, boat shaped, keeled, aristate, all 3-ribbed, barbed at base; stamens 5, filaments united at base; ovary obovoid, stigma capitate.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The plant is diuretic. A decoction is used internally to treat gonorrhea.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : alpha and Beta-spinasterols
azulene
alpha-borneol
bornylacetate
camphene
camphore
1,8-cineol
alpha-cucumene
p-cymene
elemol acetate
eudesmol
genaniol
limonene
linalool
myrcene
Beta-ocimene
alpha-pinene
Beta-pinene
alpha-terpineol
alpha-terpinolene and alpha-thujone in flower oil
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ SS Semenya, MJ Potgieter, and LJC Erasmus; "Exotic and indigenous problem plants species used, by the Bapedi, to treat sexually transmitted infections in Limpopo Province, South Africa"; Afr Health Sci. (2013); 13(2): 320-326 PMID : 24235930