MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH403 : Rorippa indica (L.) Hiern. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | - |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Cruciferae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Indian Field-Cress, variableleaf yellowcress, yellow cress, Chamsuru, kaadu saasive, Pahelo jhar, aaku mullangi | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Cardamine atrovirens (Hornem.) Kuntze Cardamine glandulosa Blanco Cardamine lamontii Hance Clandestinaria indica Spach Nasturtium apetalum A.Chev. (Unresolved) Nasturtium atrovirens (Hornem.) DC. Nasturtium diffusum DC. Nasturtium heterophyllum D. Don Nasturtium indicum (L.) DC. Nasturtium montanum Wall. ex Hook. f. & Thomson Nasturtium montanum (Nutt.) Kuntze Nasturtium sinapis (Burm. f.) O.E. Schulz Radicula indica (L.) J.M. Macoun Rorippa atrovirens (Hornem.) Ohwi & H. Hara Rorippa indica (L.) L.H. Bailey Rorippa indica (L.) Hochr. . Rorippa montana (Wall. ex Hook. f. & Thomson) Small Rorippa sinapis (Burm. f.) J.F. Macbr. Rorippa sinapis (Burm. f.) Ohwi & H. Hara Sinapis benghalensis Roxb. ex DC. (Unresolved) Sinapis divaricata Roxb. (Unresolved) Sisymbrium apetalum Lour. (Unresolved) Sisymbrium atrovirens Hornem. Sisymbrium gangeticum Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. (Unresolved) Sisymbrium indicum L. Sisymbrium sinapifolium St.-Lag. (Unresolved) Sisymbrium sinapis Burm. f. Nasturtium indicum (L.). DC. |
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| Description : | Annual or biennial herb, 50-60 (-75) cm tall, sparsely hairy to glabrous (in our area), often much branched above. Leaves similar to the above species but sinuate and toothed, pinnatifid, lyrate to almost entire; upper ones often acute or acuminate with an elongated apex. Racemes elongated, 25-35-flowered, up to 15 cm long in fruit. Flowers c. 2.5 mm across, yellow; pedicels up to 5 mm long in fruit, ascending or subspreading. Sepals 2-2.5 mm long. Petals usually about as long as the sepals, sometimes reduced or suppressed. Stamens c. 1.5:2 mm long. Siliquae usually 10-15 mm long, c. 1.5 mm broad, slender but often slightly up-curved, blunt apexed with c. 1 mm long style and capitate stigma; seeds subbiseriate (or biseriate), minute, c. 0.5 mm long, usually about 100 (or more) in each fruit. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | purported diuretic, anti-inflammatory, antifever, and anticough properties and to help with blood circulation and rheumatoid arthritis. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | hirsutin Ronifore rorifamide vanillic acid malic acid rutin kaempferol quercetin isorhamnetin |
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| Reference : | ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 PMID : ~ Chen S; "Natural products triggering biological targets - a review of the anti-inflammatory phytochemicals targeting the arachidonic acid pathway in allergy asthma and rheumatoid arthritis."; Curr Drug Targets (2011); 12(3): 288-301 PMID : 20955151 ~ Kuldip S. Dogra, Sandeep Chauhan and Jeewan S. Jalal; "Assessment of Indian medicinal plants for the treatment of asthma"; Journal of Medicinal Plants Research (2015); 9(32): 851-862 PMID : |
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