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MH439 : Arisaema leschenaultii Blume

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Alismatales
Family : Araceae
Genus : Arisaema
Species : Arisaema leschenaultii Blume
Plant Location in Melghat : on road side moist places at higher elevations  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : Rare  
Plant Family : Araceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Kerala Cobra Lily
 
Synonym : Arisaema attenuatum E.Barnes & C.E.C.Fisch.
Arisaema filicaudatum N.E.Br.
Arisaema huegelii Schott
Arisaema longicaudatum Blatt.
Arisaema papillosum Steud. ex Schott
Arisaema peltatum C.E.C.Fisch.
Arisaema pulchrum N.E.Br.
Description : A beautiful perennial herb with corm 1-6 cm across. Leaves are digitately compound, with 7-12 leaflets, each 15-25 x 5-7 cm, lanceshaped, tip tapering; nerves many, close, parallel, forming an intramarginal vein, prominent, hairless. Leaf-stalk is up to 70 cm long, 1-3 cm thick, brownish. Flower-cluster-stalk is thick, smaller than the leaf-stalk. Spathe, or the "hood" of the cobra, is 10-22 cm long, tube 5-15 cm long, 1-3.5 cm broad, with thick greenish brown streaks; limb ovate, tip curved down, finely tapering, green with brown streaks. Spadix is 11-15 cm long, club-shaped at tip, female flowers many in lower 1-3 cm long; neuter flowers thread-like, simple or bifurcate, to 1 cm long. Flowering: July-September.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Used in Ayurveda for the treatment of eczema, gonorrhea, urinary diseases, fistula, colitis, piles, haemorrhoids, syphills, roundworm, and sinus. For treating asthma, powder of Arisaema speciosum fresh tubers roasted in an air tight mud pot and is taken orally along with grapes at bed time. Fresh tuber paste is applied over infected skin and boils. Fruit grain is swallowed once daily during gas trouble.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : stigmasterol
cholesterol
campesterol
Reference : ~ Suruse, P., Kale, M.K., Gunde, M., Amnerkar, Nikhil. and Pathak, A.K.; "Evaluation of wound healing activity of Arisaema leschenaultii blume in rats"; Der Pharmacia Lettre (2011); 3: 200-206. PMID :