MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH361 : Conyza canadensis (L.) Cronquist |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 25 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Chikhaldara | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Asteraceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Canadian Horseweed, Canadian Fleabane, Coltstail, Marestail | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Erigeron canadensis L. |
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| Description : | Slender erect herbs, 50 cm to more than 2 m in height, nearly smooth or bristly hairy, unbranched at base, branched near top with many small flower heads. Leaves alternate, often appearing opposite, basal and lower stem leaves 2.5 - 10 x 1 cm, strap-shape, entire or toothed, medium and upper stem leaves smaller, sessile, entire, very narrow, soft hairy at first but becoming harsh on older leaves. Flower heads small, numerous on many short branches at top of stem, about 5 mm in diameter; involucre of 2 or 3 series of very small, pointed, greenish bracts 2.5 to 5 mm long; receptacle flat, 1.2 to 2.5 mm broad when bare. Ray florets very short, usually concealed by slightly longer involucral bracts around each flower, greenish white to lavender, pistillate, more than 100 per head, about as long as disk florets; disk florets numerous, bisexual. Achene, cylindrical, elongated, broadest above the middle, somewhat tapering toward scar that has attached light-colored collar, apex truncate, surface is longitudinally grooved and has scattered white hairs, 1.3 x 0.3 mm, pappus of 10 or up to 200 hairs, brownish yellow, 1.5 to 3 times longer than achene. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Anti-cancer, astringency, Diarrhea, dysentery, anti-rheumatic, astringent, balsamic, diuretic, emmenagogue, styptic, tonic, vermifuge, treat gonorrhea, bleeding piles, | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Conyzapyranone A Conyzapyranone B Eugenyl beta-Psd scutellarin luteolin-7-O-beta-D-glucuronide quercetin quercetin-3-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside luteolin limonene spathulenol beta-pinene cis-lachnophyllum ester (2Z,8Z)-matricaria ester beta-pinene |
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| Reference : | ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Additions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants)"; The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat (1998); Technical Bulletin No. VII PMID : ~ Sonika Jain, Jaya Dwivedi, Pankaj Kumar Jain, Swaha Satpathy and Arjun Patra; "Medicinal Plants for Treatment of Cancer: A Brief Review"; Pharmacogn. J. (2016); 8(2): 87-102 PMID : ~ Padma Rao Pogaku, Subramanian Palani, Sudhakar Penthala, P Sreeman Narayana and Nagaraju Mukkamula; "Pharmacognostic and physicochemical evaluation of homoeopathic drug: Erigeron canadensis L."; Indian J Res Homoeopathy (2017); 11(1):26-33 PMID : |
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