MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH032 : Impatiens balsamina L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 69 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Among grasses on hill slopes, along roadsides, in fields | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Balsaminaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Tiwadi, Terdi | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | - |
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| Description : | Annual, 45-60 cm tall, pubescent. Leaves lanceolate, 30-90 x 10-30 mm, serrate. Flowers white, orange, pink-red or purple, 25-30 mm long, axillary, solitary or 2(-3); pedicel up to 1-5 mm long. Lateral sepals c. 1.5 mm long, ovate, sparsely ciliate; lower sepal conical, spur 10-20 mm long, curved. Capsule broadly elliptic to fusiform, 1.2-1.4 mm long, densely tomentose, pendulous. Seeds sub-globose, minutely tuberculate. Fl. Per.: Late August-September. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Treat thorn or glass-puncture wounds, abscesses, scrofulosis, carbuncles, dysentery, rheumatism, isthmus and crural aches, fractures, superficial infections, fingernail inflammation, tumor, difficult labor and puerperal pain, anti-microbial, antirheumatic, antipruritic, anti-inflammatory, anti-allergic activities and antitumoral | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Kaempferol Quercetin Pelargonidin salicylic acid sinnapic acid cafeic acid scopletin 2-hydroxy 1,4-naphthoquinone biscoumarin 4,40-biisofraxidin scopoletin isofraxidin Naphthoquinones lawsone Hennotannic acid Lawsone methyl ether Methylene-3,3-bilawsone, 2-methoxy-1,4-naphthoquinone(Anti-cancer) |
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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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