MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH331 : Cyperus iria L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | - |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Raipur | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Red List Category - Least Concern | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Cyperaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Rice Flat Sedge, Iria flatsedge, Moth, Jeku, Jeku Kasa, Jekin Hullu, Jekin Gadde, Chow, Guchen, Mothey, Ochumani, Yanaikkitti | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Chlorocyperus iria (L.) Rikli. Cyperus chrysomelinus Link. Cyperus diaphaniria Steud. Cyperus iria f. chrysomelinus (Link) Kük. Cyperus iria f. diaphaniria (Steud.) Miq. Cyperus iria f. flavescens (Benth.) Domin. Cyperus iria f. multiflora Domin. Cyperus iria var. paniciformis C.B.Clarke. Cyperus iria var. santonici (Rottb.) Fernald & Griscom. Cyperus iria var. typicus Domin, nom. inval. Cyperus nangtciangensis Pamp. Cyperus paniciformis Franch. & Sav. Cyperus panicoides Lam. Cyperus resinosus Hochst. ex Steud. Cyperus santonici Rottb. |
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| Description : | Annual Herbs with fibrous roots. The height varies from 8 to 60 cm. The roots are numerous, short and yellowish-red. The culms are tufted, triangular, glabrous, green and 0.6-3.0 mm thick. The leaves are linear-lanceolate, usually all shorter than the culm, 1-8 mm wide, flat, and scabrid on the margin and major ribs; leaf sheaths are green to reddish-brown, membraneous and envelope the culm at the base. The inflorescence is simple or compound, usually open, 1-20 cm long and 1-20 cm wide, with groups of spikes which are either sessile or on 0.5-15.0 cm long peduncles (rays). Inflorescence bracts (involucre) are leafy, three to five (occasionally seven), the lower one longer than the inflorescence, 5-30 cm long, 1-6 mm wide. The spikes are sessile or almost so, elongate, and rather dense. Spikelets are erect-spreading, crowded, 6-24-flowered, 2-13 mm long, 1.5-2.0 mm wide, golden to yellowish-green. Glumes are broad-ovate, 1.0-1.6 mm long, golden-brown. There are two or three stamens. The style is 3-branched. The fruit is a small achene (nutlet), 1.0-1.5 mm long, 0.6-0.7 mm wide, obovate, triangular in cross section, dark-brown to almost black; the surface is almost smooth. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The plant is astringent, febrifuge, stimulant, stomachic and tonic. It is used to treat amenorrhoea. The whole plant is used to treat rheumatism and to regulate menstruation. The rhizomes are used as a diuretic. A decoction of the ground tubers is used for treating fevers. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | hentriacontanol cyperene caryophyllene beta-cadinene karacoline a-cadinol methyl 3,7,11-trimethyl-trans-2 trans-6, cis-9,11-dodecatetrraenoate methyl 3,7,11-trimethyl-trans-2 trans-6, trans-9,11-dodecatetraenoate methyl 3,7,11-trimethyl-11-hydroxy-trans-2 trans-6, trans-9-dode catrienoate a-pinene beta-pinene limonene p-cymene linalool a-copaene beta-elemene humulene a-elemene beta-selinene germacrene calamine d-cadinene |
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| 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 : |
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