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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH163 : Ipomoea muricata (Linn.) Jacq.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 326  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Solanales
Family : Convolvulaceae - Morning-glory family
Genus : Ipomoea L. - morning-glory
Species : Ipomoea muricata
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Convolvulaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Bhingari, barik Bhovari, Purple Moonflower,
 
Synonym : Ipomoea turbinata Lag.
Calonyction longiflorum Hassk.
Calonyction muricatum (L.) G. Don
Calonyction speciosum var. muricatum (L.) Choisy
Convolvulus colubrinus Blanco
Convolvulus muricatus L.
Convolvulus smilacifolius Salisb.
Diatrema muricata (L.) Rafin.
Ipomoea bona-nox var. purpurascens Ker-Gawl.
Ipomoea calderonii Standl.
Ipomoea petiolaris (Kunth) G. Don
Ipomoea spinulosa Brandegee.
Description : Climbers, annual, the herbaceous stems twining, glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate to orbicular, 7-18 cm long, cordate basally, acuminate apically with an acute to obtuse acumen. Flowers solitary to few-flowered cymes, the peduncles usually muricate. Sepals ovate to oblong, the outer 6-7 mm long with a fleshy-caudate awn, 4-6 mm long, the inner sepals 7-8 mm long, the awn shorter. Corolla nocturnal, lavender to purplish, 5-7.5 cm long, the tube 3-6 cm long, the limb funnel-shaped to salverform. Fruit capsular, ovoid, 1.8-2 cm long. Seeds ovoid, black, glabrous. Fl. Per.: September
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Purgative, febrifuge. Seeds—cardiac depressant, spasmolytic, hypotensive, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal. Plant juice destroys bedbugs. hypotensive, psychotropic, analgesic, and uterus and intestine-stimulating properties.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Muricatin
Calonyctin B
Calonyctin C
Calonyctin D
Calonyctin E
Calonyctin F
Calonyctin G
Calonyctin H
Calonyctin I
Calonyctin J
muricatic acid
Lysergol
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :