MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH086 : Mollugo pentaphylla L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 216 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Abundant on moist surface in open grassesland, fields stream and river beds,along roadsides | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Molluginaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Five Leaved Carpetweed, Mollugo, jharasi, jharasi, Sarsalida, | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Mollugo stricta L. Pharnaceum pentaphyllum (L.) Spreng. Pharnaceum strictum (L.) Spreng. |
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| Description : | Annual up to 24 cm tall. Stem and branches slender, glabrous. Leaves cauline and ramal, pseudo-verticillate, 1.2-4.0 cm long, 1.5 mm broad, elliptic lanceolate. Sepals 1.5-2 mm long, elliptic ovate. Stamens 5, antisepalous, c. 1.2 mm long; filaments dilated at the base, anthers less than 1 mm long, basifixed, dehiscing longitudinally. Ovary sub-globose, c. 1.5 mm broad, Fruit c. 9 mm broad, membranous. Seed less than 1 mm long, granulate, dark brown. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The plant is anti-pyretic, anti-septic, appetizer, emmenagogue, laxative and stomachic. The plant is a component of an important folk medicine in Taiwan, which is used as an anti-cancer, anti-toxic and diuretic agent. The leaves are used to make a soup that is said to promote the appetite. They are also used to treat sprue and mouth infections. A decoction of the roots is used to treat eye diseases. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Mollugogenol A Mollugogenol B Beta-amyrin Mollugogenol D oleanolic acid Beta-sitosterol |
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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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