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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH329 : Sphaeranthus africanus L.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Asterales
Family : Asteraceae / Compositae - Aster family
Genus : Sphaeranthus
Species : Sphaeranthus africanus L.
Plant Location in Melghat : Sipna river bed, Kolkaz  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : Red List Category - Least Concern  
Plant Family : Compositae  
 
Plant Common Name : African Globe Thistle, Mundi
 
Synonym : Sphaeranthus africanus var. africanus.
Sphaeranthus africanus var. suberiflorus (Hayata) Yamam.
Sphaeranthus alatus Blanco.
Sphaeranthus cochinchinensis Lour.
Sphaeranthus glaber DC.
Sphaeranthus hildebrandtii Baker.
Sphaeranthus microcephalus Vatke.
Sphaeranthus microcephalus Willd.
Sphaeranthus ovalis Steetz.
Sphaeranthus sphenocleoides Oliv. & Hiern.
Sphaeranthus suberiflorus Hayata.
Description : Glandular viscid herbs up to 30-40 cm tall. Stem with continuous wings. Herbs, erect, stout, aromatic, glabrous; stems upto 75 cm high, winged; wings entire, branches many, divaricate. Leaves narrowly obovate or elliptic, narrowed to the base, obtuse to subacute, sometimes acute, decurrent, forming the wings, subentire to minutely dentate, finely toothed, 1.5-10 x 0.5-3.0 cm, pubescent, glandular. Heads purple or white, globose, on long winged peduncle, 0.5-1.0 cm across. Receptacle orbicular to oblong. Involucral bracts linear to lanceolate, obovate, spathulate; upper ones rounded at apex; lower ones acute to acuminate, 0.3-0.4 cm long. Outer female florets 15-40, 0.2-0.3 cm long; corolla broadly cylindric, obovoid or ovoid. Bisexual florets 1-3, 0.25-0.3 cm long; corolla infundibuliform with a constriction in the middle. Achenes angled, upto 1.2 mm long, glandular.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : In Ayurveda, the plant is believed to pacify vitiated vata, pitta epilepsy, migraine, jaundice, fever, cough, hemorrhoids, helminthiasis, skin diseases and as nervine tonic.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Carvotanacetone 1
Carvotanacetone 2
Carvotanacetone 3A
Carvotanacetone 3B
chrysosplenol D
squalene
spinasterol
stigmasterol
Reference : ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 PMID :