MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MC023 : Argyreia nervosa (Burm. f.) Bojer |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 320 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Mostly around villages on thickts and small trees. | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Climbers | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Rare | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Convolvulaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Sundersok, Elephant Creeper, Hawaiian baby woodrose, silky elephant glory, woolly morning glory, ghav bel, samundar-ka-pat, samudra-sokh, vidhara, gugguli, samudrasoka; | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Argyreia speciosa (L. f.) Sweet Convolvulus nervosus Burm. f. Convolvulus speciosus L. f. Ipomoea speciosa (L. f.) Pers. Lettsomia nervosa (Burm. f.) Roxb. Rivea nervosa (Burm. f.) Hallier f. |
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| Description : | Lianas. Stems woody at base, densely white pubescent when young, glab-rescent. Leaves cordate, 18-27 cm long, apically acute to obtuse. Flowers in cymes on long, white, tomentose peduncles, the bracts ovate-lanceolate, sub¬tending. Sepals ovate to broadly ovate, 1.5-2 cm long, white-tomentose. Corol¬la with lavender limb and darker throat, 6-7 cm long, pubescent outside, at least on the tube and the interplicae. Fruit indehiscent, baccate, dry, subglobose, 1-1.5 cm long. Seeds dark to light brown, glabrous. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Brain tonic, Gyanic Problems, The root is aphrodisiac, diuretic alterative and tonic; used in gleet, gonorrhea, strangury, chronic ulcers. The leaves are maturative and absorptive; used in skin diseases and as an emollient poultices for wounds. Leaves are used as a local stimulant and rubefacient. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Lysergic acid amide Ergometrine Lysergol /Elymoclavine /Setoclavine Chanoclavine Lysergic acid Penniclavine Beta-hydroxyethylamide Palmitic acid Oleic acid Stearic acid Behenic acid Linoleic acid linolenic acid Caffeic acid Ethyl caffeate n-triacontanol Beta-sitosterol P-hydroxycinnamoyl octadecanolate 1-triacontanol Epifriedelinol acetate Epifriedelinol Quercetin Kaempferol Kaempferol 3-O-L-rhamnopyranoside epi-friedelanol 5-O-alpha-D-glucopyranoside Roots: Tetradecanyl Palmitate, 5,8-oxidotetracosan-10-one Coumarin scopoletin |
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| Reference : | ~ Boeing H, Bechthold A, Bub A, Ellinger S, Haller D, Kroke A, Leschik-Bonnet E, Muller MJ, Oberritter H, Schulze M, Stehle P and Watzl B; "Critical review: vegetables and fruit in the prevention of chronic diseases"; Eur J Nutr (2012); 51(6): 637-63 PMID : 22684631 ~ Meher Ashutosh, Agrahari Anuj kumar and Padhan Amiya Ranjan; "A LITERATURE REVIEW ON ARGYREIA NERVOSA (BURM. F.) BOJER "; IJRAP (2011); 2(5): 1501-1504 PMID : |
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