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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH394 : Drimia indica (Roxb.) Jessop

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 61  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Asparagales
Family : Asparagaceae
Genus : Drimia
Species : Drimia indica (Roxb.) Jessop
Plant Location in Melghat : Harisal  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Asparagaceae  

 
Plant Common Name : Indian Squill, Indian Drimia, Ban piaz, Jangli piaz, Kanda, Kaadu bellulli, Naayiulli, Seeme nari eerulli, Shiru naarangadde, Kanthanga, Katulli, Kolkand, Saapkanda, Jangali Kanda, Asmantaka, Krimighna, Karuvulli, Chiruvenkayam, Adavitellagadda, Nakka Vulli
 
Synonym : Albuca reflexa K.Krause & Dinter.
Aletris littoralis J.Koenig ex Steud.
Anthericum hyacinthoides Willd. ex Kunth.
Drimia zambesiaca (Baker) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt.
Erythronium hyacinthoides Royle.
Erythronium indicum Rottler ex Spreng., pro syn.
Indurgia coromandeliana (Roxb.) Speta, no basionym page.
Indurgia govindappae (A.Boraiah & Fathima) Speta.
Indurgia indica (Roxb.) Speta
Indurgia wightiana (Hook.f.) Speta
Ledebouria maculata Dalzell
Melanthium hyacinthoides Royle
Ornithogalum desertorum J.C.Manning & Goldblatt
Scilla coromandeliana Roxb.
Scilla indica Roxb.
Thuranthos coromandelianus (Roxb.) Speta
Thuranthos govindappae (A.Boraiah & Fathima) Speta
Thuranthos indicus (Roxb.) Speta
Thuranthos wightianus (Hook.f.) Speta
Thuranthos zambesiacum (Baker) Kativu
Urginea amboensis Baker
Urginea coromandeliana Hook.f., nom. illeg.
Urginea govindappae A.Boraiah & Fathima
Urginea indica (Roxb.) Kunth
Urginea salmonea Berhaut
Urginea sebirii Berhaut
Urginea wightiana Hook.f.
Urginea zambesiaca Baker


Description : Bulbous, scapigerous herbs; bulbs tunicated, 3.5-6 x 2.5-6.5 cm, globose-conical. Leaves radical with sheathing base, 13-25 x 0.6-2.5 cm, linear, lanceolate or lorate. Scapes 17-45 cm tall, erect, purpish brown, 4-15-flowered. Flowers 0.8-1.2 cm long, c. 1 cm across, reddish green or dull green, campanulate; pedicels 2-3.5 cm long, curved, drooping; bracts 1-2 mm, deltoid. Perianth 3+3, subequal, 0.8-1 x 0.3-0.4 cm, linear-oblong, subacute, reflexed, free to the base. Stamens 6; filaments c. 3 mm long, adnate to the base of the perianth segments; anthers 1.5-2 mm long, linear, yellow, base auricled. Ovary 3.5-5 x 2-3 mm, oblong or ovoid; style obconic to narrowly elongate; stigma trilobed. Capsules 10-20 x 5-10 mm, brownish yellow. Seeds 4-10 in each cell, 4-7 x 3-4 mm, winged. Flowering: April-May.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : anti-ulcerous, antinematodal, antitumorous, anthelmintic antiarthrities and also used to cure skin diseases like warts, abscesses, boils, cardiac diseases, anti-dote to scorpion sting
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : salicylic acid
coumarins
quercitin
kaempferol
apigenin
luteolin

Reference : ~ Holaly E. Gbekley, Gnatoulma Katawa, Simplice D. Karou, SKokou Anani, Tchacondo Tchadjobo, Yaovi Ameyapoh, Komlan Batawila, and Jacques Simpore; "Ethnobotanical Study Of Plants Used To Treat Asthma In The Maritime Region In Togo"; Afr J Tradit Complement Altern Med. (2017); 14(1): 196-212 PMID : 28480398

~ Chandra Prakash Kala; "Aboriginal uses and management of ethnobotanical species in deciduous forests of Chhattisgarh state in India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2009); 5(20): 1-9 PMID :

~ 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 :