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MH399 : Sauromatum guttatum (Wall.) Schott.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :

Class	: Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order	: Alismatales
Family	: Araceae
Genus	: Sauromatum
Species	: Sauromatum guttatum (Wall.) Schott.

Plant Location in Melghat :

Bali Round, Chikhaldara

Plant Category :

Herbs

Plant's Current Status :

Plant Family :

Araceae

Plant Common Name :

Synonym :

Typhonium venosum (Dryand. ex Aiton) Hett. & P.C. Boyce
Arum venosum Dryand. ex. Aiton
Sauromatum venosum (Dryand. ex Aiton) Kunth.

Description :

Plants monoecious. Corm up to 13 cm broad, globose-depressed. Petiole mottled black, 30-45 cm long. Leaf pedate, 7-11 lobed; lobes elliptic-lanceolate, 6-23 x 1.4-7 cm. Spathe 32-44 cm long, tube ovoid, margins connate, much shorter than the limb, greenish, mottled purplish-black inside. Peduncle 1.5-3.5 cm long. Spadix shorter than the spathe, appendage pale green, stout, 14-18 (-21) cm long, obtuse. Male zone 1-13 cm long. Neuter zone 1-1.2 cm long; neuter organs clavate, 4-5 mm long, yellow. Female zone 1.5-2 cm long. Ovary obovoid. Stigma sessile. Berries red. Seed ± ovoid, c. 1.8 mm broad. Fl.Per.: April-May.

Curated Medicinal Use / Activity :

In FOLK medicine; Sauromatum venosum: Corm powder with honey given for tuberculosis, bleeding piles and in blood cancer. Fresh corm paste applied over scorpion string (Bhogaonkar and Devarkar 2002).

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 :

~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some unique ethnomedicinal plants of Korkus of Melghat Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) "; Ethnobotany (2002); 14: 16-19 PMID :