MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH433 : Aeginetia indica L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | - |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Chikhali near Tarunbanda | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Orobanchaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Indian broomrape, Forest Ghost Flower, Ye gu • Marathi: Gulabdani • Hindi: Aankuri bankuri • Malayalam: Keeripu | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Aeginetia aeginetia (L.) Huth. Aeginetia boninensis Nakai. Aeginetia indica var. alba Santapau. Aeginetia indica var. boninensis (Nakai) H. Harr. Aeginetia indica var. gracilis Nakai. Aeginetia indica var. sekimotoana (Makino) Makino. Aeginetia mairei Leveille. Aeginetia pedunculata var. abbreviata (Ham. ex Benth.) G. Beck. Aeginetia saccharicola Bakh. Aeginetia sekimotoana Makino. Orobanche aeginetia L. Orobanche ramosa var. indica (L.) O. Kuntze. Phelipaea abbreviata (Hamilton) Steudel. Phelipaea indica A. Spreng. ex Steud. |
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| Description : | Plants 15-40(-50) cm tall. Root slightly fleshy, with small branches. Stems unbranched or branched from near base. Leaves red, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 5-10 X 3-4 mm, glabrous. Flowers usually solitary. Pedicel usually erect, 10-30(-40) cm, ca. 3 mm in diam. Calyx apex acute or acuminate. Corolla purple-red striate, indistinctly bilabiate, tubular-campanulate, 2-4.5 cm; tube slightly curved; lobes subentire. Filaments purple, 7-9 mm, glabrous; anthers yellow. Ovary 1-locular; parietal placentas 4. Style 1-1.5 cm; stigma pale yellow. Capsule conical, or long ovoid-globose, 2-3 cm. Seeds yellow, ellipsoid, ca. 0.04 mm. Fl. Apr-Aug, fr. Aug-Oct. 2n = 30. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | An infusion of the plant taken internally for diabetes. Decoction of plant used for treatment of anasarca due to acute nephritis. Used to treat chronic liver diseases, cough, and arthritis. Root juice taken to treat fever. Considered immunostimulating, anti-cancer, tonic, and anti-inflammatory. Studies have suggest antitumor and immune-stimulatory properties. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | alpha-L-rhamnopyranosyl-(1-3)-1-O-caffeoyl-beta-D-glucopyranoside 2,3,diacetyl acteoside balanophonin 4-O-beta-d-glucopyranoside aegineoside |
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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 : ~ Boeing H, Bechthold A, Bub A, Ellinger S, Haller D, Kroke A, Leschik-Bonnet E, Muller MJ, Oberritter H, Schulze M, Stehle P and Watzl B; "Critical review: vegetables and fruit in the prevention of chronic diseases"; Eur J Nutr (2012); 51(6): 637-63 PMID : 22684631 |
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