MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH248 : Polygonum plebeium R. Br. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 445 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Red List Category - Least Concern | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Polygonaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Knotweed, Small Knotweed, Machechi, Tarakmana, Gulabi Godhadi, Bethe, Chemti sag, Muthisag, Zinako Okhrad, Sarpakshee | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Avicularia indica Didr. Polygonum aviculare var. minutiflorum Franch. Polygonum changii Kitag. Polygonum herniarioides Spreng. Polygonum humifusum var. mandshuricum Skvortsov Polygonum parviflorum Y.L. Chang & S.H. Li |
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| Description : | a prostrate, densely branched, annual herb. Stems are branched from base, branches numerous. Lance-like, elliptic, stalkless leaves are 1.0-3.0 x 0.1-0.4 cm, entire. Ochrea (a kind of sheath formed by two stipules united round a stem) are 1-2 mm long, membranous, ovate, tube-shaped. Flowers are pink, in leaf-axils, in clusters of 1-5, flower-stalks 0.5 mm long at flowering, usually enclosed by ochreae. Flowers sunken between ochrea or hardly coming out, 1-2 mm across, nearly stalkless. Tepals 5, 1.5-3 x 0.5-1.0 mm, inverted-lanceshaped - lanceshaped, unequal, outer tepals slightly longer and pointed, inner too blunt. Stamens 5, filaments long with broaden base, equal. Ovary small, trigonous with three styles and capitate stigmas. Nuts 1.0-1.75 mm long, circular to ovate, shining, black, hairless. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Root is boiled and mixed with butter locally for stimulate mammary glands; It is also considered to soothes and protects the alimentary canal. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | oxymethylanthraquinone oleanolic acid betulinic acid epi-friedelanol beta-sitosterol quercetin quercetin-3-arabinoside Rutin |
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID : |
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