MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH346 : Aerva javanica (Burm. f.) Juss. ex Schult. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | - |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Harisal | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Amaranthaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Kapok Bush, Java aerva, pillow bush, snow bush • Hindi: Buee | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Achyranthes javanica (Burm. f.) Pers. Aerva persica (Burm. f.) Merrill Aerva tomentosa Forssk. Aerva wallichii Moq. Celosia lanata L. Illecebrum javanicum (Burm. f.) Murr. Iresine javanica Burm. f. Iresine persica Burm. f. |
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| Description : | Perennial herb, frequently woody and suffruticose or growing in erect clumps, 0.3-1.5 m, branched from about the base with simple stems or the stems with long, ascending, sometimes intricate branches. Stem and branches terete, striate, ± densely whitish- or yellowish-tomentose or pannose, when dense the indumentum often appearing tufted. Leaves alternate, very variable in size and form, from narrowly linear to suborbicular, ±densely whitish- or yellowish tomentose but usually more thinly so and greener on the upper surface, margins plane or more or less involute (when strongly so the leaves frequently ± falcate-recurved), sessile or with a short and indistinct petiole or the latter rarely to c. 2 cm in robust plants. Flowers dioecious. Spikes sessile, cylindrical, dense and stout (up to c. 10 x 1 cm.), to slender and interrupted with lateral globose clusters of flowers and with some spikes apparently pedunculate by branch reduction; male plants always with more slender spikes (but plants with slender spikes may not be male) ; upper part of stem and branches leafless, the upper spikes thus forming terminal panicles; bracts 0.75-2.25 mm, broadly deltoid-ovate, hyaline, acute or obtuse with the obscure midrib ceasing below the apex, densely lanate throughout or only about the base or apex, persistent; bracteoles similar, also persistent. Female flowers with outer 2 tepals 2-3 mm, oblong-obovate to obovate-spathulate, lanate, acute to obtuse or apiculate at the tip, the yellowish midrib ceasing well below the apex; inner 3 slightly shorter, elliptic-oblong, ± densely lanate, acute, with a narrow green vitta along the midrib, which extends for about two-thirds the length of each tepal; style slender, distinct, with the two filiform, flexuose stigmas at least equalling it in length; filaments reduced, anthers absent. Male flowers smaller, the outer tepals 1.5-2.25 mm, ovate; filaments delicate, the anthers about equalling the perianth; ovary small, style very short, stigma rudimentary. Capsule 1-1. 5 mm, rotund, compressed. Seed 0.9-1.25 mm, round, slightly compressed, brown or black, shining and smooth or very faintly reticulate. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Seeds are believed to cure headaches. A gargle is made from the plant to try to treat toothache. Uses in Skin Diseases. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Chrysoeriol isorhamnetein 3-O-rutinoside kaempferol-3-robinoside campesterol beta-sitosterol triterpenoid alpha-and beta-amyrin kaempferol palmitic acid stearic acid linoleic acid myristic acid oleic acid palmitoleic acid aervanone |
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| Reference : | ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 PMID : ~ Behailu Bizuayehu and Belachew Garedew; "A review on the ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used for the treatment of gonorrhea disease in Ethiopia"; Indian Journal of Natural Products and Resources (2018); 9(3): 183-193 PMID : |
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