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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH236 : Aerva lanata (L.) Juss. ex Schult.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 432  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Caryophyllales
Family : Amaranthaceae - Amaranth family
Genus : Aerva Forssk. - aerva
Species : Aerva lanata (L.) Juss. ex Schult. - aerva
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : Common  
Plant Family : Amaranthaceae  

 
Plant Common Name : Polpala, Astana Bayda, Chaya, Pashanabheda, Akopinole, Aadaanpaaki, Pulai, Konda, Cherula etc.
 
Synonym : Achyranthes lanata L.
Achyranthes villosa Forssk.
Aerva arachnoidea Gand.
Aerva incana Suess.
Aerva mozambicensis Gand.
Aerva sansibarica Suess.
Illecebrum lanatum (L.) L.


Description : Herbs, white woolly. Leaves 3-4 x 3 cm, orbicular to ovate, apex obtuse, mucronate, pubescent above, densely woolly below, membranous; petiole 1 cm. Spikes axillary, to 1 cm, densely tomentose; bracts and bracteoles 1 mm, ovate; tepals 1.5 mm, oblong, woolly mucronate; filaments basally connate, 0.5 mm, staminodes subulate; ovary 0.4
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Urinal diseases, Antimicrobial, urethral problems, lithiasis, and gonorrhea; Decoction of complete plant used in kidney stone or kidney pain.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Palmitic acid
Coumestrol
Beta-sitosterol
Campesterol
Chrysin
Daucosterol
Syringic acid
Vanillic acid
Feruloyltyramine
Feruloylhomovanillylamine
ervine
methylervine
ervoside
aervine
methylaervine
aervoside
ervolanine
aervolanine
kaempferol
quercetin
isorhamnetin
persinol
Persinosides A
Persinosides B
methyl grevillate
lupeol
lupeol acetate
benzoic acid
Beta-sitosterol acetate
tannic acid

Reference : ~ Chellaiah Muthu, Muniappan Ayyanar, Nagappan Raja and Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu; "Medicinal plants used by traditional healers in Kancheepuram District of Tamil Nadu, India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2006); 2(43): 1-10 PMID :

~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 PMID :

~ Omolola Temitope Fatokun, Tosin Ejiro Wojuola, Kevwe Benefit Esievo and Oluyemisi Folashade Kunle; "Medicinal plants used in the management of Asthma: A review"; EJPMR (2016); 3(7): 82-92 PMID :

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

~ Manoj Goyal, Anil Pareek, B. P. Nagori, and D. Sasmal; "Aerva lanata: A review on phytochemistry and pharmacological aspects"; Pharmacogn Rev. (2011); 5(10): 195–198 PMID : 22279378

~ Yuhao Zhaoa, Deepak Kumar, D.N. Prasad, Rajesh K.Singh and Yanxu Ma; "Morphoanatomic, physicochemical, and phytochemical standardization with HPTLC fingerprinting of aerial parts of Aerva lanata (Linn) Juss ex Schult"; Journal of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences (2015); 2(1): 39-44 PMID :

~ Yuhao Zhao, Deepak Kumar, D.N. Prasad, Rajesh K. Singh and Yanxu Ma; "Morphoanatomic, physicochemical, and phytochemical standardization with HPTLC fingerprinting of aerial parts of Aerva lanata(Linn) Juss ex Schult"; Journal of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences (2015); 2: 39-44 PMID :