MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH084 : Glinus lotoides L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 214 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In stream and river beds,drying ponds,shallow areas of fields | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Molluginaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | - | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Doosera esculenta Roxb. ex Wight & Arn. Glinus dictamnoides Burm.f. Glinus lotoides subsp. hirtus (Thunb.) M.R.Almeida. Glinus lotoides var. macrantha Pitot ex Täckh. & Boulos. Glinus lotoides var. micrantha Pitot ex Täckh. & Boulos. Glinus lotoides var. pedicellatus Domin. Glinus micranthus Boiss. Glinus ononoides Burm.f. Mollugo hirta Thunb. Mollugo hirta var. lotoides (L.) C.B.Clarke. Mollugo lotoides (L.) Arcang. Pharnaceum hirtum (Thunb.) Spreng. |
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| Description : | Annual procumbent herb up to 40 cm long, with stellate woolly parts. Leaves sub-verticillate, 0.6-2.0 cm long, 0.5-1.8 cm broad, orbiculate or more or less cuneate, often mucronate; petiole 2-8 mm long. Flowers in axillary clusters of 5(-6), sub-sessile; pedicel up to 1.5 mm long. Sepals 4-4.5mm long, up to 7 mm in fruit, persistent, ovate to ovate-oblong, apiculate, imbricate. Fertile stamens 12; filaments 2-3.5 mm long, unequal, persistent; anthers less than 1 mm long, bilobed. Ovary c. 2 mm long, ovoid. Stigmas 5 (4), linear, c. 1 mm long, persistent. Capsule sub-globose or oblong, c. 6 mm long, membranous, enclosed in the sepals. Seeds many, less than 1 mm long, tuberculate, strophiolate, with a curved linear appendage c. 3/4 the size of the seed. Fl. Per.: Febr.-April. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Seed used in treatment of tapeworm infestation. The plant is considered useful in abdominal disorders. It is used as an anti-septic, an anthelmintic, as a treatment for Diarrhea and bilious attacks, and as a purgative for curing boils, wounds and pain in general. The juice of the plant is also sometimes given to weak children for strength. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Vicenin-2 Mollugogenol B Mollugogenol C Mollugogenol E Mollugogenol A Mollugogenol D beta-sitosterol gamma-sitosterol Oleanolic acid molligocin A Mollugogenol a-3 Mollugogenol 7 Stidmollugogenol-F |
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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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