MG030 : Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : |
591 |
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| Class |
: Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Order |
: Cyperales |
| Family |
: Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family |
| Genus |
: Eleusine Gaertn. - goosegrass |
| Species |
: Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn. - Indian goosegrass |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : |
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| Plant Category : |
Grasses |
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| Plant's Current Status : |
- |
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| Plant Family : |
Gramineae |
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| Plant Common Name : |
Indian Crowfoot Grass, Indian goosegrass, Wiregrass, Crowfootgrass, Malankuri, Balraja, Mandla, Jharnpriya kodu, Bilwagaja, Ganjalada hoo, Hecchulli hullu, Rannachani, Khurd, Khurd-mendi, Nandimukhi, Thippa ragi, Kevuru, Karuchodi, Kuror |
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| Synonym : |
Cynosurus indicus Linn.
Eleusine japonica
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| Description : |
Tufted annual; culms 15-85 cm high, erect or geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades usually folded, 5-35 cm long, 2.5-6 mm wide. Inflorescence digitate, composed of 1-10(17) slender ascending spikes 3.5-15 cm long, a few spikes often set below the main apical cluster. Spikelets 3-9-flowered, elliptic, 4.6-7.8 mm long; lower glume 1.1-3.2(3.9) mm long. upper glume 1.8-4.7 mm long; lemmas lanceolate, 2.4-4.8 mm long, acute to subacute.
Fl. & Fr. Per.: June-August. |
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| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : |
sudorific and febrifuge, roots used in the prevention of abortion (abortifacient). Root, is used in traditional medicine as
a diuretic, anti-helminthic, diaphoretic and febrifuge and for treating cough and other ailments.
The seed is sometimes used as
famine food and also used in the treatment of liver complaints. |
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| Plant's Phytochemicals : |
C-glycosylflavone |
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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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