MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS065 : Dregea volubilis (L. f.) Benth. ex Hook. f. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 297 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Apocynaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Sneeze Wort, Cotton milk plant, Green milkweed climber, Green wax flower, Sneezing silk • Hindi: akad bel, harandodi, nak-chikni • Marathi: harandodi, nakhasikani • Tamil: koti-p-palai • Malayalam: velipparuthi • Telugu: dudipalatiga • Kannada: dugdhive • Bengali: tita kunga • Oriya: dudghika • Assamese: Khamal lata • Gujarati: Kadvo kharkhodo • Sanskrit: hemajivanti | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Asclepias volubilis Linnaeus f. Dregea formosana T. Yamazaki Hoya formosana T. Yamazaki Tylophora macrantha Hance Wattakaka volubilis (Linnaeus f.) Stapf. |
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| Description : | Lianas to 12 m. Branches pale gray, lenticellate, branchlets green, smooth. Petiole 2.5-6 cm; leaf blade broadly ovate or suborbicular, 7-18 × 4-17 cm, glabrous or soft pubescent, base shallowly cordate, apex acute or short acuminate; lateral veins ca. 4 pairs. Inflorescences pendent, many flowered; peduncle 2-6 cm, slender, puberulent. Pedicel 2-2.5 cm; flowers green or yellowish green, fragrant. Sepals ovate-oblong, 2.5-3 mm, pubescent, ciliate. Corolla glabrous; lobes broadly ovate, 6-12 × 5-12 mm, obtuse, ciliate. Corona yellowish green, 4-4.5 mm in diam. Anther appendages white; pollinia oblong. Ovaries pilose. Follicles narrowly ovoid, 10-15 × 3-4 cm, longitudinally wrinkled-striate or irregularly ribbed. Seeds ovate, ca. 1.2 cm × 6 mm, flattened, marginate; coma ca. 4.5 cm. Fl. Apr-Sep, fr. Jul-Dec. 2n = 22. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The leaves are much employed as an application to boils and abscesses. The roots and tender stalks are considered emetic and expectorant. The young roots are cut and the exuding juice is inserted into the nose to cause sneezing. used to treat rheumatic pain, cough, fever and severe cold. Leaf paste is taken along with pepper to treat dyspepsia; bark paste mixed with hot milk is used internally for treating urinary infections. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Polyoxypregnane glycoside Phytol Hexadecanoic acid Oxirane |
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| Reference : | ~ Chellaiah Muthu, Muniappan Ayyanar, Nagappan Raja and Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu; "Medicinal plants used by traditional healers in Kancheepuram District of Tamil Nadu, India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2006); 2(43): 1-10 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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