MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH299 : Murdannia nudiflora (L.) Brenan |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 520 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Commelinaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Naked-Stem Dewflower, Doveweed, Kansura, Tali-pullu, Tandal pambai, Dawng, Kane jhar, Masino kane | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Aneilema bracteolatum var. majus Seub. Aneilema bracteolatum var. minus Seub. Aneilema compressum Dalzell Aneilema debile Wall., nom. nud. Aneilema diandrum Buch.-Ham. ex Wall., nom. nud. Aneilema diversifolium Hassk. Aneilema foliosum Hassk. Aneilema junghunianum Miq. Aneilema lancifolium Griff. Aneilema malabaricum (L.) Merr. Aneilema minutum (Blume) Kunth Aneilema nudicaule (Burm.f.) G.Don Aneilema nudiflorum (L.) Sweet Aneilema nudiflorum var. compressum (Dalzell) C.B.Clarke Aneilema radicans D.Don Aneilema trichocoleum Schauer Callisia parvula Brandegee Commelina chinensis Osbeck Commelina diandra Steud., nom. inval. Commelina exilis Steud., nom. inval. Commelina minuta Blume Commelina nudicaulis Burm.f. Commelina nudiflora L. Commelina nudiflora f. angustifolia C.B.Clarke Commelina radicans (D.Don) Spreng. Commelina sellowii Schltdl. Cyanotis gueinzii Hassk. Ditelesia nudiflora (L.) Raf. Murdannia malabarica (L.) G.Brückn. Murdannia malabarica var. compressa (Dalzell) Santapau & S.K.Jain Phaeneilema diversifolium (Hassk.) G.Brückn. Phaeneilema malabaricum (L.) V.Naray. Phaeneilema nudiflorum (L.) G.Brückn. Stickmannia guyanensis Raf. Stickmannia longicollis Raf. Tradescantia cristata Fern.-Vill., nom. illeg. Tradescantia malabarica L. |
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| Description : | It is an annual or perennial herb, 8-115 cm tall, with a basal leaf rosette, disappearing or absent in older plants, with one to several creeping leafy branches, being either erect, semi-erect, ascendant, or at the base. Leaves are alternately arranged, sessile, larger ones linear-lanceolate, smaller ones oblong-ovate, glabrous, or with sparsely-arranged trichomes or hairs, 1.7-28 or 1.7-45 cm x 5-25 mm, with a broad leaf base, acute apex, short leaf sheath, and villous. Roots are normal, not swollen. Inflorescences terminally- or axillary-arranged, either unbranched or with 2-3 branches, no large cucullate bracts; bracts 25-35 mm oblong-cucullate, rather thin, membranous, caducous, located at the base of 25-40 mm long, glabrous pedicels, sepals 3, green, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, 3.5-5.0 mm long, petals 3, oblong to ovate-oblong, obtuse, purplish to magenta in colour, 4.5-5.5 mm long. Stamens free, 2 fertile with densely long-hairy filaments and bluish-coloured anthers; staminoids 4, with long-bearded filaments, the 3 opposite the petals with thickened, 3-lobed, light yellow coloured top, the fourth much reduced in size. The ovary is glabrous. Fruits condensed, ellipsoid-globose, shortly acuminate, glabrous, 4-6 mm in diameter, 3-loculate, each cell with 1-2 seeds, rarely with more than 6 seeds per fruit. Seeds smooth to coarse reticulate, ribbed. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | cold, cough, haemoptysis and tuberculosis, diuretic, urinary tract infections including cystitis, dysuria and strangury, | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | n-tetracosanoic acid n-triaconatanoic acid beta-sitosterol campesterol stigmasterol ergostenol stigmast-7-en-3-ol stigmasterol-3-O-glucopyranoside daucosterol (2S)-1-O-heptatriacontanoyl glycerol bracteanolide A |
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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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