MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH243 : Digera muricata (L.) Mart. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 439 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Amaranthaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Kunjar, Tanduljira, False Amaranth, kanjaro, chanchali, lahsuva, latmahuria, gorajepalle, getan, kunjar, leswa, tandala, toyya-k-kirai, chenchalicettu | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Achyranthes alternifolia L. Achyranthes alternifolia Russell ex Wall. [Invalid] Achyranthes ciliata Lam. Achyranthes digera Poir. Achyranthes muricata L. Achyranthes polygonoides Retz. Amaranthus arvensis (Forssk.) K.Krause Celosia muricata Spreng. Chamissoa arabica Spreng. Chamissoa ciliata Spreng. Chamissoa commutata Spreng. Chamissoa muricata Spreng. Cladostachys alternifolia Sweet Cladostachys arborescens D.Dietr. Cladostachys muricata Moq. Desmochaeta alternifolia DC. Desmochaeta ciliata Schult. Desmochaeta muricata DC. Digera alternifolia (L.) Asch. Digera arvensis Forssk. Digera ciliata (Lam.) Mart. Digera forsskaolii Blume Digera frutescens Juss. ex Steud. Eclotoripa annua Raf. Eclotoripa fruticosa Raf. Steiremis ciliata Raf. (Unresolved) Uretia alternifolia Raf. |
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| Description : | Annual herb, (15-) 20-50 (-70) cm, simple or with ascending branches from near the base; stem and branches glabrous or very sparingly pilose, with pale ridges. Leaf-blade narrowly linear to broadly ovate or rarely subrotund, (12-) 20-60 (-90) x (2-) 6-30 (-50) mm, glabrous or the petiole and principal veins of the lower surface of the leaf spreading-hairy, acute or acuminate at the apex, longly or (in broader-leaved forms) rapidly narrowed to the base; petiole slender, in the lower leaves up to c. 5 cm, shortening in the upper leaves. Flowers glabrous, white tinged with pink to carmine or red, usually becoming greenish-white in fruit, in long and slender or shorter and denser axillary racemes, long-pedunculate, up to c. 30 cm long, laxer below; peduncles slender, the lower up to c. 14 cm in length, both they and the inflorescence axis glabrous or sparingly spreading-hairy; bracts persistent, deltoid-lanceolate, acuminate, 1-2.75 mm, glabrous, membranous with a green or brownish percurrent midrib, each subtending a very shortly pedunculate partial inflorescence of 3 flowers. Central flower fertile, the 2 membranous, navicular outer perianth segments c. 3-4.5 mm long, oval or oblong, 7-12-nerved (in Asia), acute; the 2-3 inner segments slightly shorter, more delicate, blunt or erose, 1-3-nerved, hyaline, with a darker central vitta; stamens sub-equalling or shorter than the style; style c. 1.5-4 mm, the 2 stigmas finally recurved. Lateral flowers appressed, 1-bracteolate, bracteoles similar in form to the bract, these flowers much reduced and increasingly so in the upper part of the spike (sometimes absent there), modified into accrescent, antler-shaped scales, these scales with the lateral lobes narrow (in Asia) to broad and wing-like. Fruit subglobose, slightly compressed, 2-2.5 mm, bluntly keeled along each side, surmounted by a thick rim or a corona of short, firm processes furnished throughout with verrucae or ridges, style persistent. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | used internally against digestive system disorders; seeds and flowers are used to treat urinary disorders. plant have been used as crude drug for the treatment of kidney stone and urinary tract disorders. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | alpha and beta-spinasterol Coumarin Rutin Hyperoside Anthraquinone |
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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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