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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH421 : Tylophora fasciculata Thwaites

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Gentianales
Family : Asclepiadaceae - Milkweed family
Genus : Tylophora
Species : Tylophora fasciculata Buch.-Ham.
Plant Location in Melghat : Tarubanda  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Asclepiadaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Brown-Flowered Ipecac
 
Synonym : Vincetoxicum fasciculatum Kuntze.
Pentasachme fasciculatum (Buch.-Ham. ex Wight).
Description : Erect or suberect, pubescent twiners. Leaves to 4 x 2 cm, ovate, acute, rounded at base; nerves 3 or 4 pairs, lowest pairs basal; young leaves pinkish; petiole 1 cm long. Flowers brownish, 4 x 4 mm, 3-8 together, in axillary peduncled cymes; pedicels 5-8 mm long; sepals linear, puberulus; corolla lobes 2.5 x 1 mm, elliptic, obtuse, pubescent within; gynostegium 1.5 x 1 mm; corona process ovoid. Follicle 4 x 1 cm, ellipsoidal, glabrous. Flowering: November-July.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The roots and leaves are emetic and purgative. A decoction of the root is said to be efficacious in extremely virulent types of fever. The leaves are pounded and used as an application to unhealthy ulcers and wounds to induce healthy granulation
 
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 :