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MH393 : Chlorophytum glaucum Dalzell

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :

Class	: Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order	: Liliales
Family	: Liliaceae - Lily family
Genus	: Chlorophytum ker Gawl. - chlorophytum
Species	: Chlorophytum glaucum

Plant Location in Melghat :

Dhargad, Gullarghat

Plant Category :

Herbs

Plant's Current Status :

Plant Family :

Liliaceae

Plant Common Name :

Scaly-Stem Chlorophytum

Synonym :

Anthericum nimmonii J.Graham.
Hartwegia nimmonii Dalzell ex Baker.

Description :

a perennial herb, found in Western Ghats. Root fibres are cylindric. Leaves are 6-8, membranous, 1-1.5 ft long, 1-2 inches wide, narrowly inverted-lanceshaped, pointed, hairless, glaucous, with a short broad stalk. Flowering stem is 1-2 ft long, upright, covered with many lanceshaped sheaths. White flowers are borne in dense racemes 0.5-1 ft long, 1 inch broad. Persistent bracts form a coma at the top, before flowering. Bracts are lanceshaped, long-pointed, lower 1.8-2.5 cm long, upper ones 6-8 mm long. Flower stalks are 6-13 mm, upward pointing, jointed at or above the middle. Tepals are less than 1.3 cm long, and 3 mm broad, linear-lanceshaped, blunt-tipped, 5-nerved. Stamens are 8 mm long, anthers 4 mm long. Style is 8 mm long with minute stigma. Capsules are round, notched, with 3 pointed wings.

Curated Medicinal Use / Activity :

Roots tubers are nutritious; also used to cure sexual impotency (Bhogaonkar and Devarkar 2002).

Plant's Phytochemicals :

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 :

~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some ethnomedicinally important new plant reports from Melghat"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2008); 32(Suppl.): 214-215. PMID :

~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some unique ethnomedicinal plants of Korkus of Melghat Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) "; Ethnobotany (2002); 14: 16-19 PMID :