MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH404 : Cleome monophylla L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | - |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | A weed of fields and waste places | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Cleomaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Spindle Pod, Cheruvela, Kattukadugu, Ellukku sakkalathi | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Cleome cordata Ehrenb. ex Schweinf. Cleome ehrenbergiana Schweinf. Cleome epilobioides Baker. Cleome epilobioides Baker, nom. illeg. Cleome subcordata Steud. ex Oliver. Sieruela viscosa Rafin. |
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| Description : | Erect annual herbs, up to 40 cm high, glandular-pubescent; stem branched, angled, striate. Leaves simple, 1.5-5 x 1-2.5 cm, ovate-oblong, or linear-lanceolate, base truncate, margins ciliate, apex acute; petiole up to 3.5 cm long. Racemes terminal, lax, up to 15 cm long. Flowers 1-1.5 cm across; pedicel up to 8 mm long, glandular pubescent. Sepals 3-4 mm long, linear, acuminate. Petals pink or light purple, 6-10 x 1.5-2 mm, obovate or spathulate, base clawed, apex rounded. Stamens 6; filaments 5-8 mm long, unequal. Ovary 5-8 mm long, linear. Capsule 7-10 cm long, linear, subcylindric, beaked, strongly ribbed, glandular, hairy. Seeds c. 2 mm across, subobicular, ridged, dark brown. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The seeds and leaves of the violet-flowered form of this plant are used, with or without those of Gynandropsis pentaphylla, to make the Ayurvedic drug called 'hurhur' in India. This drug is used on ulcers, boils and wounds and is said to prevent the formation of pus. The roots are chewed in the morning and evening as a treatment for cough. The finely ground leaf is used for removing irritating particles from the eye. Crushed leaves are rubbed on the head as a treatment for headache. The pounded leaves, dried and ground are put on sores. The pounded leaves, tied on to swellings caused by plague, hasten maturation. The whole plant is used externally as a treatment for swellings. The seeds are anthelmintic, rubefacient and vesicant. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | 1-alpha-terpeneol pentacosane phytol 2-dodecanone |
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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 : |
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