MS001 : Clematis triloba A.St.-Hil. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : |
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| Class |
: Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Order |
: Ranunculales |
| Family |
: Ranunculaceae |
| Genus |
: Clematis |
| Species |
: Clematis triloba A.St.-Hil. |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : |
In Chikhaldara & Dhakna range |
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| Plant Category : |
Shrubs |
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| Plant's Current Status : |
Common |
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| Plant Family : |
Ranunculaceae |
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| Plant Common Name : |
Deccan Clematis • Hindi: Murhar • Marathi: Morvel, Ranjaee • Kannada: Merhari • Sanskrit: Laghuparnika |
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| Synonym : |
Clematis triloba Heyne ex Roth
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| Description : |
an annual climber, 1-3 m long, found mainly in the Deccan region of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. Stems are velvet hairy. Leaves are either simple or trifoliate, 3-5 cm, ovate. The leaf margin is either entire, or 3-7 lobed. Most commonly seen leaves are 3-lobed. Leaf stalks are slender, 2-8 cm, twinning. Fragrant white flowers, 2-4 cm across, occur in panicles in leaf axils. Clematis have no real petals. What appear to be petals are, in reality, sepals. Deccan Clematis flowers have 4-6 white sepals, 1-2 cm long, oblong. Many stamens arise from the center, about a cm long. Stamens are shorter than the sepals, unlike Clematis gauriana. Flowering: September-December. |
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| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : |
Aromatic oil. Skin problems; The juice of the leaves, combined with that of the leaves of Holarrhena antidysenterica, is dropped into the eye for the relief of pain in staphyloma; about 2 drops being used. Vaidya Rugnatbji of Junagad says the whole plant is a purgative. It is said to be used as a remedy in leprosy, blood diseases and fever by Sanskrit authors. |
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| Plant's Phytochemicals : |
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| Reference : |
~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :
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