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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MC028 : Ipomoea sepiaria Koenig ex Roxb.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 332  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Solanales
Family : Convolvulaceae - Morning-glory family
Genus : Ipomoea L. - morning-glory
Species : Ipomoea sepiaria Koenig ex Roxb.
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Climbers  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Convolvulaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : hedge bind-weed, purple heart glory, ban kalmi, amti-vel, asrabinducchada, lakshamana,manjika,nagaputri, nagini, putrada,putrajanani, putrakanda, tulini
 
Synonym : Ipomoea sagittifolia Burm. f.
(=) Convolvulus marginatus Desr.
(=) Ipomoea marginata (Desr.) Manitz
(=) Ipomoea maxima auct.
Description : A twinner with pilose stem. Leaves 2.5-7.5 cm long, ovate-deltoid to broadly ovate, acuminate, cordate, sometimes sagitte at the base. Flowers 2 or more in pedunculate subumbellate cymes; corolla 3-3.8 cm long, salver-shaped, light purplish or white, tinged with rose-purple. Capsule 8 mm long, smooth, spherical.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Tubers are cooling, alterative, uterine tonic and aphrodisiac; cures ulcers. Juice of the plant is deobstruent and diuretic and anti-dote to arsenic (Yusuf et al. 2009). EtOH(50%) extract of aerial parts is diuretic and hypotensive (Asolkar et al., 1992).
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Beta-sitosterol
paniculatin
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :