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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH426 : Crinum latifolium L.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Asparagales
Family : Amaryllidaceae - Nargis family
Genus : Crinum L. - swamplily
Species : Crinum latifolium L.
Plant Location in Melghat : Chikhali, Tarubanda  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Amaryllidaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Milk and Wine Lily, pink-striped trumpet lily, wide-leaved pink-striped trumpet lily, wide-leaved crinum lily crinum lily • Bengali: sukhadarshana • Konkani: gol kando • Malayalam: sjovanna-pol sjovanna-pola-talia-tali • Marathi: gadabi kanda, gulabi karnaphul • Sanskrit: cakrangi, madhuparnika, sudarsana, vrsakarni • Tamil: visa-munkil
 
Synonym : Amaryllis insignis Ker Gawl.
Amaryllis littoralis Salisb., nom. superfl.
Amaryllis moluccana Ker Gawl.
Crinum cochinchinense M.Roem.
Crinum esquirolii H.Lév.
Crinum insigne (Ker Gawl.) Sweet
Crinum jemenicum Dammann
Crinum jemense Dammann, orth. var.
Crinum latifolium var. crilae Tram & Khánh, nom. inval. without type.
Crinum longistylum Herb. ex Steud., pro syn.
Crinum moluccanum Roxb. ex Ker Gawl.
Crinum ornatum var. careyanum (Herb.) Herb.
Crinum ornatum var. insigne (Ker Gawl.) Herb.
Crinum ornatum var. latifolium (L.) Herb., nom. superfl.
Crinum ornatum var. longistylum Herb.
Crinum ornatum var. moluccanum (Roxb. ex Ker Gawl.) Herb.
Crinum ornatum var. speciosum Herb.
Crinum speciosum Herb., nom. illeg.
Description : Herbs, with white fragnant flowers in umbels.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The bulbs are extremely acrid and only used externally. In India, when roasted, they are used as a rubefacient in the treatment of rheumatism, or are crushed on piles and abscesses to cause suppuration. The juice of the leaves is used in the treatment of earache. traditionally used to treat rheumatism, fistula, tumors, earaches, rubefacient, tubercle and whitlow. anti-viral; anti-tumor;
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : pratorimine
pratosine
hippadine
pratorinine
ambelline
lycorine
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 :

~ RLS Sikarwar, Bharat Pathak & Anil Jaiswal; "Some unique ethnomedicinal perceptions of tribal communities of Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh"; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (2008); 7(4): 613-617 PMID :