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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH006 : Cleome gynandra L.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 12  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Capparales
Family : Cleomaceae / Capparaceae - Caper family
Genus : Cleome L. - spiderflower
Species : Cleome gynandra L. - spiderwisp
Plant Location in Melghat : Mostly near villages  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Cleomaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Ajagandha, Pasugandhi, Hulhul, Hurhur, Kavalia, Tilvan, Bhatvan, Mabli, Tilavana, Tilvant, Shona cabbage, African cabbage, spiderwisp, cat's whiskers, chinsaga, stinkweed
 
Synonym : Cleome acuta Schumach. & Thonn.
Cleome affinis (Blume) Spreng. nom. illeg.
Cleome alliacea Blanco.
Cleome alliodora Blanco.
Cleome blumeana D.Dietr.
Cleome bungei Steud.
Cleome candelabrum Sims.
Cleome denticulata Schult. & Schult.f.
Cleome eckloniana Schrad.
Cleome flexuosa F.Dietr. ex Schult. & Schult.f.
Cleome heterotricha Burch.
Cleome muricata (Schrad.) Schult. & Schult.f.
Cleome oleracea Welw.
Cleome pentaphylla L.
Cleome pubescens Sieber ex Steud.
Cleome rosea Eckl. ex Steud. nom. inval. Cleome triphylla L.
Gymnogonia pentaphylla (L.) R. Br. ex Steud.
Gynandropsis affinis Blume.
Gynandropsis candelabrum (Sims) Sweet.
Gynandropsis denticulata DC.
Gynandropsis glandulosa C.Presl.
Gynandropsis gynandra (L.) Briq.
Gynandropsis heterotricha DC.
Gynandropsis muricata Schrad.
Gynandropsis ophitocarpa DC.
Gynandropsis palmipes DC.
Gynandropsis pentaphylla (L.) DC.
Gynandropsis pentaphylla Blanco.
Gynandropsis sinica Miq.
Gynandropsis triphylla DC.
Gynandropsis viscida Bunge.
Pedicellaria pentaphylla (L.) Schrank.
Pedicellaria triphylla (L.) Pax.
Podogyne pentaphylla (L.) Hoffmanns.
Sinapistrum pentaphyllum (L.) Medik.
Description : Perennial climbers with unbranched, glabrous tendrils, dioecious. Root tuberous. Leaves broadly ovate, membranous, c. 6.0 x 5.0 cm, glabrous on both sides, deeply 3-5-lobed, lobes trianglular ovate or oblong, acute, with undulate or minutely remotely denticulate margin; petiole 1-3 cm long, puberulous. Male flowers 5-6 cm across, yellow, on 4-6 cm long peduncles; bracts large, sessile, entire, glabrous, often ciliated or villous on both surfaces, cucullate, suborbicular or reniform, partly enclosing the flower. Petals 2-3 x 1.5-2.5 cm, obtuse. Female flowers yellow, on c. 2.5 cm long, ebracteate or minutely bracteate peduncles; calyx lobes linear-lanceolate, 5-6 mm long, villous; corolla similar to male flowers. Ovary ovoid, covered with long and soft papillae. Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, 3-5 cm long, 2-3.5 cm across, yellow when mature, densely covered with soft spines, shortly beaked (rostrate) at apex. Seeds somewhat compressed, 6-7 x 5-6 mm, irregularly corrugated. Fl. Per.: July-October.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : anti-inflammatory, pain, swelling, fever, cough, asthma, skin and urinary diseases.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : -
Reference : ~ Jennifer L. McCracken, Sreenivas P. Veeranki, Bill T. Ameredes, William J. Calhoun; "Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in Adults - A Review"; JAMA (2017); 318(3): 279-290 PMID : 28719697

~ A. Mangaiyarkarasi and M.H. Muhammad Ilyas; "Phytochemical Screening and Fluorescence Analysis of Cleome gynandra L. Leaves"; Int. J. Curr. Res. Biosci. Plant Biol. (2015); 2(9): 58-65 PMID :

~ Chen S; "Natural products triggering biological targets - a review of the anti-inflammatory phytochemicals targeting the arachidonic acid pathway in allergy asthma and rheumatoid arthritis."; Curr Drug Targets (2011); 12(3): 288-301 PMID : 20955151

~ Park HS, Kim SR, Kim JO and Lee YC; "The roles of phytochemicals in bronchial asthma"; Molecules (2010); 15(10): 6810-34 PMID : 20924320

~ Balaji Kasirajan, Rajadurai Maruthamuthu, Vidhya Gopalakrishnan, Krithika Arumugam, Hudson Asirvatham, Vidya Murali, Ramya Mohandass and Anusha Bhaskar; "A database for medicinal plants used in treatment of asthma"; Bioinformation (2007); 2(3): 105-106 PMID :

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

~ Sonika Jain, Jaya Dwivedi, Pankaj Kumar Jain, Swaha Satpathy and Arjun Patra; "Medicinal Plants for Treatment of Cancer: A Brief Review"; Pharmacogn. J. (2016); 8(2): 87-102 PMID :