MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS092 : Viscum articulatum Burm. f. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 451 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In Bori and Koktu | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Rare, Endemic | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Santalaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | K- Banda, Leafless Mistletoe, Jointed Mistletoe • Hindi: Budu, Pudu, Hurchu • Mizo: Lenpat • Marathi: Banda • Kannada: Badanike • Bengali: Mandala • Oriya: Madanga • Gujarati: Vando • Sanskrit: Kamini | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Korthalsella moniliformis Lecomte. Viscum aphyllum Griff. Viscum attenuatum DC. Viscum compressum Poir. Viscum dichotomum D. Don. Viscum elongatum Wall. Viscum fragile Wall. Viscum opuntioides Heyne ex DC. Viscum philippense Llanos. Viscum platycaulon Bert. ex A. Gray. Viscum salicornoides A. Cunn. Viscum sertularia C.Presl. |
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| Description : | Subshrubs often epiparasitic, monoecious, usually becoming pendulous, green, 20-50 cm tall. Branches opposite and decussate or dichotomous, flattened; internodes 1.5-2.5(-4) cm × 2-3(-3.5) mm, longitudinally 3-ridged. Leaves reduced to pairs of ± scarious scales. Inflorescences axillary, cymes 1-3 together; peduncle ± absent; 3-flowered, central flower female, lateral flowers male and often lacking; bracts 2, coalescent, forming a navicular involucre, ca. 1.5 mm. Male flowers globose in bud, 0.5-1 mm; perianth lobes 4. Female flower ellipsoid in bud, 1-1.5 mm; bract annular; perianth lobes 4, triangular, ca. 0.5 mm. Stigma cushion-shaped. Berry whitish or greenish white, globose, 3-4 mm in diam., smooth, base rounded. Fl. and fr. Jan-Dec. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Digestive, hypertension, ulcer, epilepsy, inflammation, wound, nephrotoxicity, HIV, cancer, etc. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | oleanolic acid betulinic acid eriodictyol naringenin beta-amyrin acetate visartisides |
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Yang Li, Yan-Li Zhao, Ning Huang, Yong-Tang Zheng, Yong-Ping Yang and Xiao-Li Li; "Two New Phenolic Glycosides from Viscum articulatum"; Molecules (2008); 13(10): 2500–2508 PMID : 18923341 ~ Patel BP and Singh PK; "Viscum articulatum Burm. f.: a review on its phytochemistry, pharmacology and traditional uses"; J Pharm Pharmacol (2018); 70(2): 159-177 PMID : 29034952 |
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