MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MC055 : Dioscorea oppositifolia L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 505 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Climbers | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Dioscoreaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Gilandru, G- Giris- Kanda, Cinnamon Vine, Chinese Yam, Air potato, inasara, nirbatte, tabinere, kachil, paspoli, gilandru, choratogu, pittalu, amlardraka, sarpakhya, vettilaivalli, venil valli, adavidumpatige, adaviyatagatige, | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Dioscorea batatas Decne. Dioscorea opposita Thunb. Dioscorea oppositifolia var. dukhunensis Prain & Burkill Dioscorea oppositifolia var. linnaei Prain & Burkill Dioscorea oppositifolia var. thwaitesii Prain & Burkill |
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| Description : | Stem terete, twining to right, glabrous. Leaves 8-15 x 2-5 cm, opposite, elliptic, ovate or oblong, rounded or acute at base, 3-5 nerved; margins coriaceous; petiole to 3 cm long. Spike 2-6 cm long, slender, 3-6 together along the peduncle; peduncle 15-20 cm long; bracts lanceolate. Male tepals ovate, obtuse; stamens 6. Female Flowers distant; tepals 1mm long, orbicular, glabrous. Capsule 20 x 30 mm, glabrous. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Tuber : Swelling, scorpion stings, and snake bites. Oral administration of tuber powder mixed with honey for increasing sperm. Fracture | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | palmitic acid beta-sitosterol oleic acid beta-sitosterol acetate nonanedioic acid beta-daucosterol 6-methyl citrate |
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| Reference : | ~ Aadil Mustafa, Aziz Ahmad, Aadil Hussain Tantray and Parvaiz Ahmad Parry; "Ethnopharmacological Potential and Medicinal Uses of Miracle Herb Dioscorea spp."; Journal of Ayurvedic and Herbal Medicine (2018); 4(2): 79-85 PMID : ~ Sanjeet Kumar, Gitishree Das, Han-Seung Shin, and Jayanta Kumar Patra; "Dioscorea spp. (A Wild Edible Tuber): A Study on Its Ethnopharmacological Potential and Traditional Use by the Local People of Similipal Biosphere Reserve, India"; Frontiers in Pharmacology (2017); 8:52 PMID : 28261094 ~ Sheikh N., Kumar Y., Misra A. K., Pfoze L.; "Phytochemical screening to validate the ethnobotanical importance of root tubers of Dioscorea species of Meghalaya, North East India."; J. Med. Plant Stud. (2013); 1, 62-69 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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