MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH279 : Crinum defixum Ker Gawl. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 498 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Along the water margin of Tapi and Sipna rivers | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | UNCOMMON, Least Concern | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Liliaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Sukh-darshan, Bonpiaz | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Crinum viviparum (Lam.) R.Ansari & V.J.Nair Amaryllis coenosa Hook.f. Amaryllis vivipara Lam. Crinum defixum f. stephenhassardii Traub Crinum defixum var. ensifolium (Roxb.) Baker Crinum ensifolium Roxb. Crinum roxburghii Dalzell & A.Gibson Crinum viviparum var. ensifolium (Roxb.) R.Ansari & V.J.Nair |
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| Description : | A large bulbous herb. Leaves 60-90 cm long, linear, obtuse or acute. Flowers white, 6-15 in an umbel at the end of a cylindric 45-75 cm scape; corolla tube 6.3-12.5 cm long, slender, cylindric, lobes as long as the tube, narrowly linear-lanceolate, subacute, reflexed or drooping, filaments shorter than the corolla-lobes. Fruit subglobose, 2.5 cm diam. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Bulb is emollient and emetic; in small doses it is a nausant and diaphoretic. The bulb and stolon are very much used for the treatment of burns, whitlow, and carbuncle. In otitis a few drops of juice of the leaves are instilled in to the ear. In Rema Kalenga, bulbs are used for the treatment of stomach complaints of cow. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | caranine crinamine crinine galanthamine galanthine haemanthamine hippestrine lycorine |
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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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