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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH081 : Cucumis callosus (Rottb.) Cogn.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 207  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Violales
Family : Cucurbitaceae - Cucumber family
Genus : Cucumis L. - melon
Species : Cucumis callosus (Rottb.) Cogn.
Plant Location in Melghat : Among grasses, fields,along stream and river margines  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Cucurbitaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Jangli Kakdi, Tigger melon
 
Synonym : Bryonia callosa Rottb.
Cucumis melo Blanco.
Cucumis prophetarum Wall.
Cucumis pseudocolocynthis Royle.
Cucumis pubescens Wall.
Cucumis pyriformis Roxb. ex Wight & Arn.
Cucumis trigonus Roxb.
Cucumis turbinatus Roxb.
Ecballium lambertianum (Ser.) M. Roem.
Momordica lambertiana Ser.
Description : Perennial climbers; stems 1.0-1.5 m, slender, angular, rough with short, rigid hairs. Leaves alternate, 3-6 cm long, suborbicular, base cordate, palmately 5-7 lobed, lobes round or ovate-oblong, often narrowed at the base, apex round, dentate or lobulate; petioles 2-6 cm long, slender, hispid. Plants monoecious. Male flowers often solitary; peduncles 0.5-1.0 cm long; calyx-tube narrow campanulate, ca. 3 mm long; lobes subulate, 1.5-2.0 mm long; corolla yellow, 6-7 mm long, lobes ovate, oblong, acute; staminal filaments short; anthers ca. 2 mm long, appendage of the connective shorter than anthers; pistillode ca. 1 mm long. Female flowers: peduncles 2-3 cm long; ovary densely hairy; style 1.5-2.0 mm long; stigmas converging, ca. 2.5 mm long. Fruits obovoid; seeds ca. 5 x 2 mm, 1 mm thick, oblong, white.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : anti-diabetic, anti-oxidant, ANTI-HYPERLIPIDAEMIC; Fruit is traditionally used to prevent insanity to strong memory and remove vertigo. The seeds are cooling and astringent and useful in bilious disorder. diabetics; cooling effect, improve appetite, easy bowl syndrome, relives stomach pain, vomiting and constipation; indigestion, dropsy, and pulp of fruit used in abortion (abortifacient) and to increase menses for women; epilepsy and Diarrhea
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : -
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :