MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH076 : Ammannia baccifera L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 197 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In stream beds drying ponds,waterlogged parts of fields. | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Rare | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Lythraceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Ammannia, acrid weed, blistering ammania, monarch redstem, tooth cup, aginbuti, ban mirich, dadmari, jungli mehendibhara jambhula, dadmari | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Ammannia aegyptiaca Willd. |
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| Description : | Plant 6.5-32 cm tall, rarely suffruticose. Leaves horizontal or drooping, obovate, obovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, acute or obtusish, base usually attenuate, sometimes cuneate or rounded, 1-47 mm long, 0.5-9 mm broad. Cymes ± sessile, glomerular. Flowers sessile or subsessile. Hypanthium 1-1.75 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm broad. Epicalyx obscure. Petals absent. Style c. 0-0.25 (-0.5) mm. Capsule slightly exceeding the hypanthium, 1.25-1.5(-2) mm in diameter. Fl. Per.: March-Aug. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | antiurolithic, antifertility, anthelmintic, anti-microbial, analgesic; scabies, ringworm, parasitic skin infections, common cold, typhoid, strangury, spinal disease, gastroenteropathy and aphrodisiac, antitumor, anti-inflammatory, antiarthritic, antianalgesic, anti-pyretic, antidiuretic, Anti-cancer (Król et al., 2015) | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | hentriacontine dotriacontanol Lupeol ellagic acid quercetin lawsone Beta-sitosterol Beta-sitosterol-Beta-D-glucoside Rutin Kaempferol Ambacinol Ambacinin Betulinic acid Dotricontanol Hentiracontane |
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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