MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH257 : Euphorbia geniculata Ortega |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 460 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Euphorbiaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Dudhi | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Euphorbia heterophylla L. Euphorbia prunifolia Jacq. Poinsettia geniculata (Ortega) Klotzsch & Garcke Poinsettia heterophylla (L.) Klotzsch & Garcke Poinsettia prunifolia (Jacq.) Klotzsch & Garcke |
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| Description : | An erect subglabrous or sparingly-pubescent annual up to 90 cm tall. Leaves mostly opposite, all petiolate, the petioles up to 4 cm long. Leaf-blades variable, elliptic-obovate to elliptic-oblanceolate or sometimes narrowly-lanceolate, 1-15 x 0.5-8 cm, the upper often narrower than the lower, acute, subacute or obtuse at the apex, cuneate or rounded-cuneate at the base, entire, denticulate or dentate, lateral nerves up to 20 pairs, subglabrous and dull green above, sparingly-puberulous and paler beneath, the upper leaves sometimes faintly purplish-blotched at the base. Stipules sessile, glandular. Inflorescence a pseudo-dichasium or rarely a triradiate pseudopleiochasium, with the cyathia aggregated together in dense terminal clusters. Glands 1-2 (-3), stipitate, circular, concave. Fruits roundly trilobate, 4-4.5 x 5-5.5 mm, smooth, glabrous. Styles connate at the base, 1 mm long, bifid. Seeds is quadrangular-ovoid, basally truncate, 2-2.5 x 1.5-2 mm, coarsely bluntly tuberculate, dark brown, ecarunculate. Fl. & Fr. Per.: ± Throughout the year. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | treatment of bacterial infections and inflammations | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Genicunolide A Genicunolide B Genicunolide C friedelin friedelinol Geniculatin kaempferol quercetin 3-rhamnosyl quercetin beta-amyrin acetate |
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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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