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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MC005 : Cayratia trifolia (L.) Domin.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 87  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Rhamnales
Family : Vitaceae - Grape family
Genus : Cayratia Juss. - cayratia
Species : Cayratia trifolia (L.) Domin - three leaf cayratia
Plant Location in Melghat : Small trees ond borders of fields  
Plant Category : Climbers  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Vitaceae  

 
Plant Common Name : Bush Grape, fox-grape, three-leaved wild vine, three leaf cayratia, ambatvel, amboshi, sarbarival; Galgala
 
Synonym : Causonis trifolia (L.) Raf.
Cayratia carnosa (Lam.) Gagnep.
Cayratia mekongensis C.Y.Wu
Cayratia timorensis (DC.) C.L.Li
Cayratia timorensis var. mekongensis (C.Y.Wu ex W.T.Wang) C.L.Li
Cayratia trifolia var. cinerea (Lam.) Gagnep.
Cayratia trifolia var. quinquefoliola W.T.Wang
Vitis carnosa (Lam.) Wall.
Vitis carnosa Wall. ex M.A. Lawson
Vitis trifolia L.


Description : Native to India, Bush Grape is a vine that climbs by means of tendrils which are found opposite the leaves. The leaves are trifoliolate with petioles 2-3 cm long. The leaflets are ovate to oblong-ovate, 2-8 cm long, 1.5-5 cm wide, pointed at the tip, and coarsely toothed at the margins. The flowers are small greenish white and borne on solitary cymes in leaf axils. The fruit is fleshy, juicy, dark purple or black, nearly spherical and about 1 cm in diameter. Flowering: December.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The root, ground with black pepper, is applied to boils. The root is also used as an astringent medicine. Paste of tuber applied as poultice to ripen boils. Roots, if eaten, result in violent vomiting. Used to vomit out any toxic or poisonous thing eaten accidentally (Bhogaonkar and Devarkar 2002).
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Linoleic acid
Piceid
Resveratrol
Viniferin
Ampelopsin
Hydrocyanic
Cyanidin
Kaempferol
Myricetin
Quercetin
epi-friedelanol

Reference : ~ Chandra Prakash Kala; "Aboriginal uses and management of ethnobotanical species in deciduous forests of Chhattisgarh state in India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2009); 5(20): 1-9 PMID :

~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some unique ethnomedicinal plants of Korkus of Melghat Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) "; Ethnobotany (2002); 14: 16-19 PMID :

~ Shubhangi Pawar and D A Patil; "Observations on folkloric medicinal plants of Jalgaon district, Maharashtra"; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (2004); 3(4): 437-442 PMID :