MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH333 : Tricholepis glaberrima DC. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | - |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Ghatang | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Asteraceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Smooth Tricholepis, brahmadandi, dahan, brahmadamde, Chhagaladandi, brahman dandi, ajadandi, brahmadandi | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Tricholepis glaberrima glaberrima |
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| Description : | Herbs up to 2.5 m tall, stems sparsely leafy, branches 3-angled. Pappus copious. Achenes smooth. small annual herb, growing up to 50-100 cm tall, with ribbed and angled branches. Alternately arranged stalkless leaves, 3-6 cm long, are linear-opblong, sharp tipped, spiny toothed. Pink flower-heads occur singly on stalks at the end of branches. The bracts on the green portion of the flower-head, are pointed, needle-like, recurved. Flowering: November-December. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Useful in skin disease, cough urinary troubles; Antioxidant, nervine tonic, aphrodisiac, anti-inflammatory, anti-septic. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | spinasterol stigmasterol stigmast–7–enol |
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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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