Dioscorea belophylla
Dioscorea belophylla
Dioscorea belophylla
Plant Category | : | Climbers |
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 502 |
Synonym | : | Dioscorea nummularia var. belophylla Prain.;
Dioscorea sagittata Royle, nom. inval.; |
Plant Common Name | : | Jangli Matol, G- Nand- Nand-Kand, Spear-leaved Yam, chupri alu, turar, kadu genasu, jangli matol, sankhaluka |
Plant Family | : | Dioscoreaceae |
Description | : | Tubers small, sub-fusiform. Stems glabrous, twining anticlockwise. Leaves usually opposite, simple, 7.5-13 cm. long, 2-9 cm broad, variable, ovate, cordate or hastate with round basal lobes or deltoid, entire, acuminate, glabrous 9-nerved; petiole 6.5 cm long. Male spikes 2.5-4 cm long, 1-2 together in the axils or sometimes forming leafless panicles; stamens 6, all antheriferous. Female spikes 5.5-12 cm long, solitary or 2 together, axillary. Capsule 2 cm long, 3 cm broad, obovate with a retuse apex or obcordate. Fl. Per.: September-October. |
Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
Medicinal Use / Activity | : | ulcers, sores, wound, spasms, dysentery, diabetes and cancer;
Tuber powder given in sex-related diseases. Tuber poultice applied on whitlow (infection at the base of nail) (Bhogaonkar and Devarkar 2002) |
Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: stigmasterol; mono-arachidin; 1,7-bis-(4-hydroxyphenyl)-1E,4E,6E-heptatrien-3-one; behenic acid; demethyl batatasin IV; 2,3-di-hydroxy-4,5-dimethoxybibenzyl; diosbulbin B; diosbulbin D; docosyl ferulate; 7-bis-(4-hydroxyphenyl) -4E, 6E-heptadien-3-one; 5,3,4-trihydroxy-3,7-dimethoxyflavone; tristin; protocatechuic acid; adenosine; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2): Flavone; Stigmasterol; |
Plant's Current Status | : | |
Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/243752
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=242422012
- https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Spear_Leaved%20Yam.html
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19873780 |
Reference | : | ~ Aadil Mustafa, Aziz Ahmad, Aadil Hussain Tantray and Parvaiz Ahmad Parry; "Ethnopharmacological Potential and Medicinal Uses of Miracle Herb Dioscorea spp."; Journal of Ayurvedic and Herbal Medicine (2018); 4(2): 79-85 PMID : ~ Sanjeet Kumar, Gitishree Das, Han-Seung Shin, and Jayanta Kumar Patra; "Dioscorea spp. (A Wild Edible Tuber): A Study on Its Ethnopharmacological Potential and Traditional Use by the Local People of Similipal Biosphere Reserve, India"; Frontiers in Pharmacology (2017); 8:52 PMID : 28261094 ~ Sheikh N., Kumar Y., Misra A. K., Pfoze L.; "Phytochemical screening to validate the ethnobotanical importance of root tubers of Dioscorea species of Meghalaya, North East India."; J. Med. Plant Stud. (2013); 1, 62-69 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some unique ethnomedicinal plants of Korkus of Melghat Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) "; Ethnobotany (2002); 14: 16-19 PMID : |
Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
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Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
Class | : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
Subclass | : Liliidae |
Order | : Liliales |
Family | : Dioscoreaceae - Yam family |
Genus | : Dioscorea L. - yam |
Species | : Dioscorea belophylla |