MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH398 : Amorphophallus commutatus (Schott) Engl. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 65 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Chikhaldara | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Endemic | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Araceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Dragon Stalk Yam, kattucena, mogari kanda, shevala | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Amorphophallus commutatus var. anmodensis Sivad. & Jaleel. Amorphophallus commutatus var. anshiensis Punekar, Lakshmin. & Sivad. Amorphophallus commutatus var. wayanadensis Sivad. & Jaleel. Conophallus commutatus Schott. |
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| Description : | Herbs with corms. Leaves tripartitely compound, to 50 m long, leaflets elliptic, caudate-acuminate, base acute, glabrous, membranous; petiole to 50 cm long, terete; peduncle 8-10 cm long and 0.7-0.9 cm diameter, smooth, pale yellowish in colour, covered by about 4 cataphylls, each cataphyll 2.5-15 cm long and 1.5-5.0 cm broad. Spathe ovate-acute, 17-18 cm long and 4-5 cm broad, differentiated into a basal tube and an upper limb separated by a slight constriction between the two; basal tube slightly compressed, obovoid, ca. 2.5-3 cm long; limb expanded, erect, pale yellowish outside and pale brownish towards the margins; tube slightly purplish, verrucose, with unicellular hairs within. Spadix 23-25 cm long, sessile or stipitate to ca. 3-5 mm; female zone ca. 1.5 cm long, male zone cylindrical, ca. 3 cm long, appendix elongate, narrowly conical with rounded apex, 18-20 cm long, 1.3-1.5 cm diameter at base and tapering towards the tip, pale-yellowish brown to dark purplish brown in colour. Female flowers ca. 2.5 mm long, ovary sub-globose, ca. 1.5 mm high, 2 mm diameter, pale greenish, unilocular with a basal anatropous ovule; style very short; stigma ca. 1.5 mm diameter, narrower than the ovary, inconspicuously 3-lobed. Male flowers pale yellowish, densely arranged, sessile; each ca. 1.25 mm high and 1.25 mm broad, inconspicuously 2-lobed; dehiscence by apical slit-like pores. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Tuber paste is applied externally to cure scabies | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| 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 : |
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