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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MG098 : Coix lacryma-jobi L.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Coix L. - Job's tears
Species : Coix lacryma jobi-L
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Grasses  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Poaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Job's tears, adlay or adlay millet, Chinese pearl barley,
 
Synonym : Coix agrestis Lour.
Coix arundinacea Lam.
Coix chinensis Tod.
Coix chinensis Tod. ex Balansa nom. illeg.
Coix exaltata Jacq. ex Spreng.
Coix gigantea J.Jacq. nom. illeg.
Coix lacryma L. nom. illeg.
Coix ma-yuen Rom.Caill.
Coix ouwehandii Koord.
Coix ovata Stokes nom. illeg.
Coix palustris Koord.
Coix pendula Salisb. nom. illeg.
Coix pumila Roxb.
Coix stenocarpa (Oliv.) Balansa
Coix stigmatosa K.Koch & Bouché
Coix tubulosa Hack.
Lithagrostis lacryma-jobi (L.) Gaertn.
Sphaerium lacryma (L.) Kuntze nom. illeg.
Sphaerium tubulosum (Warb.) Kuntze
Description : Job’s Tears is a coarse annual herb. The stem is erect, branched, rather coarse, and stout, and 1-2 m high. The leaves are 10-40 cm long, 2.5-4 cm wide, with the base broad and cordate. The spikes are 6-10 cm long, erect and peduncled. The male spikelets are about 8 mm long. The capsules (fruits), enclosing the female flowers and the grains, are hard, bony, white or nearly black, shining, ovoid, about 8 mm long. The chief value of Job’s Tears lies in the edibility of the fruit. The berries are also strung as beads, used as rosaries, made into curtains, trays, bags etc.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The root is used in India for menstrual disorders. In Liberia the juice from the stem is squeezed into the eye to relieve irritation due to injury.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : -
Reference : ~ Kokate, U.R. and Muratkar, G.D.; "Study of the effect of invasive species on the development of grass meadows of Melghat Tiger Reserve, Amravati Maharashtra"; Online International Interdisciplinary Research Journal (2014); 4(2): 155-165 PMID :