MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH117 : Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 257 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Throughout common,on mud flats along stream and river banks,moist open grasslands, in shade of walls | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Compositae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Purple Sow Thistle, Cupid's shaving-brush, emilia, Flora's paint brush, red tassel-flower, hirankhuri, kirankuri, hirankuri, sadamandee, panom, undrachi, muyalccevi, mayarcevi, mulshevi, muyalccevi, ili kivi gida, elikivi gida, elikivisoppu, jumki hoo, sadimodi, sachimodi, binj-kudo, bonkapahua, sasasruti, sasasrutih, Revival macha, Mula pate, Chaulaane Jhaar | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Cacalia sonchifolia L. Crassocephalum sonchifolium (L.) Less. Emilia purpurea Cass. Emilia rigidula DC. Emilia sinica Miq. Gynura ecalyculata DC. Senecio sonchifolius (L.) Moench Senecio sonchifolius var. bogorensis Hochr. Senecio sonchifolius var. sonchifolius |
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| Description : | Purple Sow Thistle is an annual herb with a branched taproot. Stems are weak, erect or often branched at the base, smooth or sparingly hairy, 10 to 60 cm tall. This species is recognized by the sow-thistle like leaves. Lower leaves are deeply and irregularly toothed, kidney-shaped, ovate, triangular-ovate or obovate, 4-16 cm long, 1-8 cm wide with narrowly winged stalks. Upper leaves are smaller, alternately arranged, usually entire, sometimes coarsely toothed, stalkless and somewhat clasping the main stem. Inflorescence is an involucrate flower head resembling a single flower, 1.2-1.4 cm long, 4-5 mm wide, urn-shaped, long-stalked, at the end of branches. Flowering branches usually dichotomously branched with 3-6 heads, each head or capitulum a composite of numerous florets. The cup of the flower-head is green, cylindrical, somewhat inflated below. Florets are 30-60 per head, purple, scarlet, red, pink, orange, white or lilac. Purple Sow Thistle is found in the Himalayas, up to altitudes of 2100 m. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Fever, Sore throat, Diarrhea, Snake bite, | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ 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 : |
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