MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH014 : Portulaca oleracea L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 24 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In stream and river bets | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Portulacaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Ghol, purslane, verdolaga, little hogweed, red root, pursley, horse tooth amaranth | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Portulaca aurea Hort. ex DC. Portulaca consanguinea Schlecht Portulaca laevis Buch-Ham. Portulaca officinarum Crantz Portulaca olitoria Pall. Portulaca parviflora Haw. Portulaca suffruticosa Thw. Portulaca viridis Hort. ex DC. |
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| Description : | Annual or perennial, prostrate or erect, c. 25 cm tall, succulent, glabrous, green or purplish green herb. Branches and stem with 3-20 mm rarely up to 50 mm long internodes. Leaves alternate or subopposite, closely crowded below the flowers, spathulate or obovate-oblong to linear-oblong, attenuate at the base, sub-sessile, obtuse or truncate, 3-25 mm long, 1.5-8 mm broad, thick, fleshy, glabrous, glistening white below, green or purplish-green above; stipular appendages usually absent, or rarely every minute and setaceous. Inflorescence usually in the forks of branches, cymose, with clusters of 3-6 flowers subtended by 4-leaved involucre, rarely flowers solitary and terminal. Flowers sessile, yellow, 5-8 mm across, bracteate; bracts membranous, ovate, c. 3 mm long, acuminate, white or somewhat purplish. Sepals subequal, basally united into a short, 2-3 mm long tube, keeled; lobes 2-3 mm long, slightly hooded, margin broad membranous, acute, deciduous. Petals 5, deliquescent, slightly united at the base, obovate, 5-6 mm long, 2.5-3 mm wide, yellow, emarginate with mucronulate notch. Stamens 7-12, basally somewhat united and adnate to petals, filaments c. 2.5 mm long, sensitive to touch, anthers ovoid. Ovary c. 2 mm long, half embedded in calyx tube, ovoid; style 1.5-2 mm long, stigmas 4-5, sticky, c. 1 mm long. Capsule many-seeded, 6-8 mm long, 3-4 mm in diam. Seeds shining black, c. 0.5-0.8 mm, reniform, testa tuberculate. Fl. Per. Flowers open in morning throughout the year. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Its leaves are used for insect or snake bites on the skin, boils, sores, pain from bee stings, bacillary dysentery, Diarrhea, hemorrhoids, postpartum bleeding, and intestinal bleeding. Anti-cancer (Li et al., 2012) | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Noradrenaline Calcium salts Dopamine L-DOPA Malic acid Citric acid Glutamic acid Asparagic acid Nicotinic acid Alanine Glucose Fructose Sucrose Betacyanins Omega-3 Fatty Acid 2'-hydroxy- 5,7-dimethoxy-3-benzyl-chroman-4-one 2'-hydroxy-5,6,7-trimethoxy-3-benzyl-chroman-4-one 5,2'-dihydroxy-6,7-dimethoxy-3-benzyl-chroman-4-one 5,2'-dihydroxy-7-methoxy-3-benzylidene-chroman-4-one Kaempferol Myricetin Luteolin Apigenin Quercetin Genistein Genistin Portulacanones B Portulacanones C Portulacanones D Oleraceins A, Oleraceins B, Oleraceins C, Oleraceins D, and Oleraceins E Portulosides A and Portulosides B Beta-carotene Glutathione Melatonin Portulacerebroside A Catechol Bergapten |
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); 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 : |
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