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MS028 : Leea edgeworthii Santapau

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 89  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Vitales
Family : Vitaceae - Grape family
Genus : Leea
Species : Leea edgeworthii Santapau
Plant Location in Melghat : Stream banks in valley bottoms  
Plant Category : Shrubs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Leeaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Banchalita • Hindi: banchalita • Manipuri: Koknal • Bengali: Banchalita;
 
Synonym : Leea asiatica (L.) Ridsdale.
Gastonia nalugu Lam.
Gilibertia nalugu (Lam.) DC.
Leea aspera Edgew.
Leea crispa D. Royen ex L.
Leea herbacea Buch.-Ham.
Leea marginworthii Santapau
Leea pinnata Andrews.
Leea pumila Kurz.
Leea sanguinea M'Lell. ex C. B. Clarke.
Phytolacca asiatica L.
Description : Shrub up to 3 m tall, stem herbaceous, shoot not winged. Leaves unipinnately compound, lowest pair of leaflets rarely again pinnately compound, leaflets elliptic, 6-20 x 2.5-12 cm, scabrous with few white hairs above, hairy on the nerves below, cordate-rounded, acuminate, serrate; lateral petiolulate 1-2 cm long; stipules large, c. 1.4 cm long, adherent to the petiole, pubescent to glabrous, caducous. Peduncles 0 to 5 cm long. Flowers white or greenish white, c. 4 mm across; bracts filiform, longer in old flowers, smaller upwards, ± persistent, hairy. Calyx cupular, 5-lobed, lobes 2-5 mm long, linear, subulate, obtuse and gland-tipped. Petals 5, ovate 1.5-2 mm long. Staminal tube divided about half way down or a little less. Berry black, smooth, depressed-globose, 4-6 mm in diameter, entire or obscurely 6-lobed, glabrous. Fruit edible. Fl. Per.: August-November.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The root tuber is used as a treatment against guineaworms. The root, combined with the bark of Boswellia serrata, is made into paste which is prescribed in cases of snake bite.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : -
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Ethnomedicinal plants used in skin treatment by Korkus of Melghat Dist. Amravati (MS), India"; Life Sciences Leaflets (2011); 178-191 PMID :