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MS108 : Telosma pallida (Roxb.) Craib

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Gentianales
Family : Asclepiadaceae - Milkweed family
Genus : Telosma
Species : Telosma pallida (Roxb.) Craib
Plant Location in Melghat : Umarkhed  
Plant Category : Shrubs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Asclepiadaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Telosma vine • Hindi: Surkilla • Telugu: Konda male-tige, Aalapala, Errumalle-tige
 
Synonym : Asclepias pallido Roxb.
Pergularia pallida Wight & Arn.
Description : Stems slender, to 3 m, puberulent. Petiole 2.5-3.5 cm; leaf blade ovate-cordate, 6-8 × 3-5 cm, membranous, glabrous, base deeply cordate, apex acuminate; basal veins 5, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs. Cymes extra-axillary, umbel-like; peduncle 0.7-1.5 cm. Pedicel 5-12 mm. Flowers odorless or nearly so. Sepals ovate-lanceolate, ciliate. Corolla yellow-white; tube nearly as long as or shorter than lobes, throat villous; lobes lanceolate, glabrous. Corona lobes fleshy, apex acuminate, longer than anther appendages; pollinia oblong, erect. Stigma head conical, apex retuse. Follicles cylindric-lanceolate, 5.5-10 cm. Seeds ovate, 5-8 mm; coma ca. 2.5 cm. Fl. Aug, fr. Oct-Dec. 2n = 22.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Used to treat whooping cough, cold and asthma. The milky latex obtained from fruit is used in leucoderma and other skin diseases.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : pallidine
pallidinine
Reference : ~ Jennifer L. McCracken, Sreenivas P. Veeranki, Bill T. Ameredes, William J. Calhoun; "Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in Adults - A Review"; JAMA (2017); 318(3): 279-290 PMID : 28719697

~ Riddhi D Kanakhara, Harisha C. Rudrappa, Vinay J. Shukla and Radinarayan Acharya; "A detailed pharmacognostical and phytochemical profile on stem of Telosma pallid (L.) Kurz.: An etrapharmacopoeial drug"; Int. J. Res. Ayurveda Pharm. (2018); 9(1): 36-43 PMID :

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~ Riddhi D Kanakhara, Harisha C. Rudrappa, Vinay J. Shukla and Rabinarayan Acharya; "A detailed pharmacognostical and phytochemical profile on stem of Telosma pallida (L.) Kurz.: An extrapharmacopoeial drug "; Int. J. Res. Ayurveda Pharm (2018); 9(1): 36-43 PMID :

~ Balaji Kasirajan, Rajadurai Maruthamuthu, Vidhya Gopalakrishnan, Krithika Arumugam, Hudson Asirvatham, Vidya Murali, Ramya Mohandass and Anusha Bhaskar; "A database for medicinal plants used in treatment of asthma"; Bioinformation (2007); 2(3): 105-106 PMID :