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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH244 : Gomphrena celosioides Mart.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 440  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Caryophyllales
Family : Amaranthaceae - Amaranth family
Genus : Gomphrena L. - globe amaranth
Species : Gomphrena celosioides auct. non Mart.
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Amaranthaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Water globehead, Nirvadamalli, Neervadamalli, Gomphrena Weed,
 
Synonym : Gomphrena serrata L.
Gomphrena decumbens Jacq.
Gomphrena dispersa Standl.
Description : Prostrate herbs, branchlets woolly. Leaves 2-4 x 1 cm, elliptic, obovate, apex acute, mucronate, spathulate, woolly beneath. Spikes terminal and sometimes axillary, to 8 cm long; bracts 3 mm, scarious, mucronate, ciliate at apex; bracteoles 2, 2.5 mm, ovate, mucronate; tepals 5, 4.5 mm, lanceolate, acute at apex, woolly at the back of the inner 3 tepals; stamens 5, tube to 2.5 mm; ovary 1 mm, 1-ovuled, style 0.4 mm, stigma 2-fid.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : gastrointestinal, respiratory problems, skin infections, abortifacient,
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Aurantiamide
Aurantiamide acetate
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :