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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH419 : Pimpinella heyneana (DC.) Benth.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Apiales
Family : Apiaceae / Umbelliferae - Carrot family
Genus : Pimpinella
Species : Pimpinella heyneana (Wall. ex DC.) Kurz
Plant Location in Melghat : Ghatang  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Umbelliferae  

 
Plant Common Name : -
 
Synonym : Helosciadium heyneanum Wll. ex DC.
Pimpinella multiradiata Sant.
Anethum trifoliatum Roxb.
Apium trifoliatum Wight & Arn.
Carum heyneanum (Wall.) Franch.
Pimpinella heyneana (DC.) Benth. (Unresolved)
Sium triternatum Moon


Description : Herbs, 90 cm tall. 3-foliolate leaves, lateral ternate. Flowers didymous. Fruits glabrous. Erect or decumbent herbs, stem terete. Leaves alternate, 5-7 cm across, lower leaves orbicular, upper ones 3-lobed, base cordate, toothed; petiole 1-6 cm long, sheathing at base. Umbels terminal, panicled; rays 10; secondary rays many, each 3 cm long. Flowers 9-16 in an umbellule, 1.5 mm across, white; pedicels 5 mm long; calyx shortly 5-toothed; petals 5, 1 mm long, orbicular; stamens 5. Fruit 3 x 2 mm, ovate, densely villous, rugose.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : ALL TYPES OF PAINS: One spoon of root paste is administered with water.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : -

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 :