MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH104 : Blumea laciniata (Wall. ex Roxb.) DC. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 244 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Occasional throughout in river beds | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Compositae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Cutleaf Blumea | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Blumea acutata DC. Blumea cichoriifolia DC. ex Decne. Blumea crepidifolia DC. Blumea glandulosa Benth. Blumea laciniata var. laciniata. Blumea okinawensis Hayata Blumea onnaensis Hayata Blumea runcinata DC. Blumea sonchifolia DC. Conyza acutata (DC.) Miq. Conyza cichoriifolia (DC.) Miq. Conyza laciniata Wall. ex Roxb. |
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| Description : | Malodorous herbs 2-18 dm tall from a taproot; stems erect to ascending, usually branched from the base, glabrate to pilose. Leaves oblanceolate, obovate to elliptic in outline, sometimes lyrate, 4.5-36.5 cm long, 0.8-21 cm wide, the lower ones pinnately lobed, sometimes with a large terminal lobe, becoming progressively less lobed above, margins irregularly dentate, the lower ones petiolate, petioles 1-6 cm long, sessile above. Heads in large, terminal, open panicles; involucral bracts often purple-tinged, reflexed at maturity, 1-8 mm long, pilose; receptacle sparsely pilose; corollas yellow, those of perfect florets 5-lobed, 4-5 mm long, those of marginal pistillate florets 2-3-lobed, 3.5-4.5 mm long. Achenes brown, ribbed, ca. 4 mm long | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Mouth diseases of cattle, eczema and skin diseases | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | protocatechuic acid chrysoeriol apigenin 4-hydroxy-3,5-dimethoxbenzoic acid scopolet Lupeol Alpha-Amyrin Campesterol Beta-sitosterol |
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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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