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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH400 : Theriophonum minutum (Willd.) Baill

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 67  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Alismatales
Family : Araceae
Genus : Theriophonum
Species : Theriophonum minutum
Plant Location in Melghat : Kolkaz  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Araceae  

 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Arum crenatum Wight.
Arum minutum Willd.
Theriophonum crenatum (Wight) Blume.
Theriophonum kleinii Schott.
Theriophonum zeylanicum N.E.Br.
Typhonium crenatum (Wight) Schott.
Typhonium minutum (Willd.) Schott.


Description : Ground dwelling bulb; decidious; smooth stem; thornless.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : cure intestinal and duodenal ulcers. Tuber powder with honey given for small intestinal ulcers and stomachache (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 :