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MH444 : Adenostemma lavenia (L.) Kuntze

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Asterales
Family : Asteraceae / Compositae - Aster family
Genus : Adenostemma J.R. Forst. & G. Forst. - medicineplant
Species : Adenostemma lavenia (L.) Kuntze – common medicineplant
Plant Location in Melghat : Moist places  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Compositae  
 
Plant Common Name : Jangli-jira; Ghanerem; Sticky Daisy; Clubwort; Common Medicineplant;
 
Synonym : Adenostemma aquaticum D.Don
Adenostemma elatum D.Don
Adenostemma erectum (Sw.) DC.
Adenostemma fastigiatum (Blume) DC.
Adenostemma fastigiatum var. fastigiatum
Adenostemma latifolium D.Don
Adenostemma lavenia var. aquaticum (D.Don) Kuntze
Adenostemma lavenia var. fastigiatum (Blume) Hook.f. ex Kuntze
Adenostemma lavenia var. typicum J.Kost.
Adenostemma lavenia var. viscosum (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) M.R.Almeida
Adenostemma leiocarpum DC.
Adenostemma macrophyllum var. repens (Blume) DC.
Adenostemma rivale Dalz.
Adenostemma rugosum DC.
Adenostemma viscosum var. fastigiatum (Blume) Blume ex C.B.Clarke
Adenostemma viscosum var. trisetum Miq.
Ageratum aquaticum Roxb.
Lavenia alba Wall.
Lavenia aquatica Spreng.
Lavenia carnosa Wall.
Lavenia dentata Wall.
Lavenia divaricata Ham.DC.
Lavenia elata Spreng.
Lavenia erecta Sw.
Lavenia fastigiata Blume
Lavenia latifolia Spreng.
Lavenia nudiflora DC.
Lavenia rugosa Wight
Description : Herbs, annual, 30-100 cm tall. Stems erect, solitary, rigid, usually divaricately branched in upper part, white puberulent, glabrous in lower part. Leaves remote; basal leaves persistent or withered at anthesis; median leaves large; petiole narrowly winged, 0.5-4 cm; blade elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic or rhombic-elliptic, or broadly ovate to cordate, 4-12 × 2-5 cm, both surfaces sparsely puberulent or glabrescent, usually rather densely hairy on veins, base broadly or narrowly cuneate, margin crenate or incised, serrate, or doubly serrate, apex acute or obtuse; upper and lower leaves smaller, shortly petiolate. Capitula few, rarely many, small, in a lax or dense corymb or panicle; peduncle 0.8-3 cm, gray-white or ferruginous puberulent; involucre hemispheric, 4-5 × 6-8 mm, to 10 mm in diam. at fruiting; phyllaries 2-seriate, green, subequal, narrowly elliptic, thin, submembranous, outer phyllaries mostly connate, sparsely white villous, apex obtuse; corollas ca. 2.5 cm, viscid-glandular, pubescent. Achenes blackish brown when mature, oblanceolate, ca. 4 × 1 mm, glandular, sometimes densely tuberculate, contracted at base, apex obtuse; pappus elements clavate, ca. 4.1 mm, basally connate into a ring, fulvous viscid-glandular. Fl. and fr. Aug-Oct. 2n = 20.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Traditionally the leaf paste is applied on cuts and wound, insect and caterpillar bites.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Adenostemmoside
Adenostemmoic acid
Reference : ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book PMID :