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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MC031 : Gloriosa superba L.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 509  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Liliales
Family : Liliaceae - Lily family
Genus : Gloriosa L. - flame lily
Species : Gloriosa superba L. - flame lily
Plant Location in Melghat : In Dhargad, Bori, Koktu  
Plant Category : Climbers  
Plant's Current Status : Rare, Endemic  
Plant Family : Liliaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Kal-Lawi, K-Zagdaili, glory lily, bachnag, kalihari, langali, climbing lily, creeping lily, fire lily, flame lily, gloriosa lily, Malabar glory lily, superb lily, tiger claw, jhumka,
 
Synonym : Gloriosa rothschildiana O'Brien, Gloriosa simplex L., Gloriosa speciosa (Hochst.) Engl., Methonica superba (L.) Crantz
Description : A herbaceous glabrous branching climber. Leaves sessile, 7.5-15 cm long, ovate-lanceolate, acuminate, ending in a cirrhate tip. Flowers large, axillary, solitary or subcorymbose towards the ends of the branches; petals 6.3 cm long, linear-lanceolate with crispy waved margins, greenish at first, then yellow, passing through orange and scarlet to crimson. Capsules 4.5 cm long, oblong, 3-lobed.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Anti venome(snake), anthelmintic, laxative, alexiteric, abortifacient; Flame lily also used as a tonic, anti-periodic, anti-helminthic. The tuber has commonly been used as a suicidal agent among women in rural areas. tubers are tonic, stomachic and anthelmintic; useful in colic, chronic ulcers and piles; gout; abortifacient;
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Colchicine
Gloriosine
Isoperlolyrine
Beta-sitosterol
2-hydroxy 6-methoxy benzoic acid
Luteolin
N-formyldeacetylcolchine
3-dimethylcolchicine
chelidonic acid
colchicines
dimethyl colchicine
Reference : ~ Boeing H, Bechthold A, Bub A, Ellinger S, Haller D, Kroke A, Leschik-Bonnet E, Muller MJ, Oberritter H, Schulze M, Stehle P and Watzl B; "Critical review: vegetables and fruit in the prevention of chronic diseases"; Eur J Nutr (2012); 51(6): 637-63 PMID : 22684631

~ Chandra Prakash Kala; "Aboriginal uses and management of ethnobotanical species in deciduous forests of Chhattisgarh state in India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2009); 5(20): 1-9 PMID :

~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID :

~ Nduche, M.U. and Okwulehie, I.C.; "ETHNOMEDICINAL SURVEY OF PLANTS USED IN TREATING SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES IN ABIA STATE, NIGERIA"; Review of Plant Studies (2014); 1(2): 1-9 PMID :

~ Das, DC.; Sinha, NK.; Chattopadhyay JC.; Das M. and Samanta P.; "The use of medicinal plants for the treatment of Gonorrhea and Syphilis in south west Bengal of India"; International Journal of Phytomedicine (2013); 5: 14-17 PMID :