MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH121 : Gnaphalium luteo-album |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 261 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Very common, often froming conspicuous patches on soft mud along stream and river margins, in drying ponds,shade of walls | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Compositae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Bara Kamra, Jersey Cudweed, | |||||||||||||
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| Description : | Annual herb, 15-45 cm long; stem simple or branched, softly woolly. Leaves sessile, 2.5-6.3 cm long, spathulate-oblong or linear oblong, woolly on both surfaces. Flowers in dense, leafless, corymbose clusters of yellow glistening heads. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The leaves are used as an astringent and vulnerary. The tomentum is applied as counter irritant for gout. Leaves: useful in wounds and burns, also used internally to check discharge of blood serum or mucous secretions. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | luteolin glucoside luteolin dehydro-p-asebotin bitter principles phytosterin 2',4,4'-trihydroxy-6-methoxychalcone-4'-glucoside |
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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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