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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH261 : Euphorbia prostrata Aiton

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 464  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Euphorbiales
Family : Euphorbiaceae - Spurge family
Genus : Euphorbia
Species : Euphorbia prostrata
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Euphorbiaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Prostrate sand mat
 
Synonym : Anisophyllum prostratum (Aiton) Haw.
Aplarina prostrata (Aiton) Raf.
Chamaesyce malaca Small
Chamaesyce prostrata (Aiton) Small
Chamaesyce villosior (Greenm.) Millsp.
Euphorbia callitrichoides Kunth
Euphorbia malaca (Small) Little
Euphorbia perforata Guss.
Euphorbia prostrata var. caudirhiza Fosberg
Euphorbia prostrata var. vestita Engelm. ex Boiss.
Euphorbia ramosa var. villosior Greenm.
Euphorbia tenella Kunth
Euphorbia trichogona Bertol.
Tithymalus prostratus (Aiton) Samp.
Description : Prostrate herbs, branchlets pubescent. Leaves distichous, 3-6 x 2-4 mm, elliptic-obovate, apex obtuse, base obliquely rounded, margin crenulate, stipulate. Cyathia axillary, involucre ca 1 x 0.7 mm, tubular, glands 4; male ebracteolate, subsessile, anthers 1 mm, dehiscence transverse; female laterally pendulous, ovary 5 mm across, style 3.5 mm, forked from base, stigma obtuse. Capsule prominently beaked angles with spreading hairs; seeds 4-angled.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : treatment of bleeding hemorrhoids
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : gallic acid
corilagin
geraniin
Tellimagradin I
Tellimagradin II
rugosin A
rugosin E
rugosin D
rugosin G
6-methoxyquercetin-glycoside
quercetin
luteolin
apigenin
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :