MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH367 : Vicoa cernua Dalzell |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 31 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Along the road to semadoh on moist shaddy slopes | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Compositae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | - | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Pentanema cernuum (Dalzell) Ling. |
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| Description : | Herbs, annual. Stems 25-50 cm tall, pubescent. Petiole very short; leaf blade oblong-lanceolate, 5-7.5 × 2-2.5 cm, both surfaces shortly pubescent, base narrower, margin shallowly serrulate or dentate, rarely entire, apex acute or acuminate. Capitula 5-7 mm in diam., pendulous, in sparse corymbs; peduncles slender, usually with 1 small bracteal leaf. Phyllaries linear, apiculate, pubescent; outer ones squamiform. Ray florets 20-40; lamina yellow, linear, longer than involucre, apex 3-toothed. Achenes oblong, ca. 0.6 mm, sparsely pubescent. Pappus of disk florets few, brown, 3-4 mm. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Pentanema cernuum: Root powder given for abortion. Leaf and flower juice massaged over skin to improve skin complexion. Flower juice taken orally for fair complexion (Bhogaonkar and Vevarkar 2002). | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Additions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants)"; The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat (1998); Technical Bulletin No. VII PMID : ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some unique ethnomedicinal plants of Korkus of Melghat Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) "; Ethnobotany (2002); 14: 16-19 PMID : ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Ethnomedicinal plants used in skin treatment by Korkus of Melghat Dist. Amravati (MS), India"; Life Sciences Leaflets (2011); 178-191 PMID : |
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