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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH302 : Arisaema murrayi (J.Graham) Hook.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 524  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Arales
Family : Araceae - Arum family
Genus : Arisaema Mart. - Jack in the pulpit
Species : Arisaema murrayi
Plant Location in Melghat : In Chikhaldara Tarubandha, Dhaknas, Semadoh range, Koktu valley  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Araceae  
 
Plant Common Name : K-Khadar, Murray's Cobra Lily, Pandhra sap-kanda
 
Synonym : Arum murrayi J.Graham.
Description : Corm to 2.5 cm across. Leaflets 5-6, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, apex acute, base cuneate, membranous, 10-17 x 4-6 cm; petiole sheathing, 20-40 cm long. Peduncles as long as the petiole; spathe greenish, to 10 cm long, base tubular, to 3 x 1.5 cm; limb 6 x 5 cm, green with white streaks, reddish along margins. Spadix 6 cm long; sterile appendages as long as spathe or shortly exserted. Berry obovoid, 3 or 4-angled at apex, 6 x 5 mm.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Tuber paste is applied externally to cure skin diseases. Corm paste is boiled in sesame oil. This oil is used for massage in rheumatism. Corm powder with honey and ghee given to cure bleeding piles. Corm paste used to stop bleeding from fleshly cut wounds. (Bhogaonkar and Devarkar 2002)
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : -
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some unique ethnomedicinal plants of Korkus of Melghat Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) "; Ethnobotany (2002); 14: 16-19 PMID :