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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH277 : Curcuma pseudomontana J.Graham

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 496  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Zingiberales
Family : Zingiberaceae - Ginger family
Genus : Curcuma L - curcuma
Species : Curcuma pseudomontana Grah.
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : Red List Category - Least Concern  
Plant Family : Zingiberaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Jangli Halad, K- Kukus-Mukus, Hill Turmeric, Kachura, raan halada, shindalavana, shindalavani, Kattu manjal, Kattu manjal
 
Synonym : Curcuma grahamiana Voigt, nom. illeg.
Curcuma ranadei Prain.
Description : an erect herb, growing to 75 cm tall, found on moist, shaded areas of wet forests and along sluggish grassy slopes of higher altitude. It has stout rootstock bearing small almond like sub-globose tubers at the ends of the_fibrous roots. The tubers are fleshy and white inside, aromatic. Leaves 3-5, oblong-lancelike, 20-30 x 6-9 cm, base acute, tip sharp, margin entire, hairless; shiny; leaf stalk and the leaf sheath up to 20 cm long. Flowering spikes seen in the center of the previously formed tuft of leaves, 10-25 cm long, bearing numerous compactly arranged flowers; flowering bracts conspicuous, inverted eggshaped to lancelike, 3-5 x l.5-2,cm, apex rounded to acute, hairless; gr,een with a pinktip. Non-flowering bracts (coma) oblong-lancelike, conspicuous, purple below and pinkish purple above. Flowers 2-4 in each fertile bract, bright yellow, 3 cm long and 4 cm broad. Capsules spherical, splitting by 3-valves, smooth. Seeds ovoid or oblong, usually covered with arils. Flowering: June-September.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Asthama, Cough, Cold, use tuber extracts to cure jaundice, warm tuber paste to treat body swellings, eat boiled tubers to increase lactation, tuber paste on the head for cooling effect.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : -
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID :