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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH481 : Iphigenia magnifica Ansari & Rolla Rao

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Liliales
Family : Colchicaceae
Genus : Iphigenia
Species : Iphigenia magnifica Ansari & Rolla Rao
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : Endemic  
Plant Family : Colchicaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Magnificent Grass Lily
 
Synonym : -
Description : a perennial herb, 30-50 cm tall. Stems are branched, unlike the closely similar Indian Grass Lily. Leaves are linear-lanceshaped. Flowers are dark brownish-purple, carried on long stalks. A distinguishing feature of this species is that stamen filaments are hairless. Capsules are ellipsoid-oblong, many seeded. Magnificent Grass Lily is endemic to Maharashtra and Karnataka
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Oil extracted from bulbs is uniquely used against Migraine and Snake bite by Korku tribe but elsewhere it is used for other health elements by few researchers
 
Plant's Phytochemicals :
Reference : ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some ethnomedicinally important new plant reports from Melghat"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2008); 32(Suppl.): 214-215. PMID :

~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book PMID :