Dioscorea hispida Dennst. - intoxicating yam
Dioscorea hispida Dennst. - intoxicating yam
MC054 : Dioscorea hispida Dennst.
| Plant Category | : | Climbers |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 504 |
| Synonym | : | Dioscorea daemona Roxb.;
Dioscorea daemona var. reticulata Hook.f.;
Dioscorea hirsuta Blume.;
Dioscorea hispida var. daemona (Roxb.) Prain & Burkill.;
Dioscorea hispida var. reticulata (Hook.f.) Sanjappa.;
Dioscorea lunata Roth.;
Dioscorea mollissima Blume.;
Dioscorea triphylla var. daemona (Roxb.) Prain & Burkill.;
Dioscorea triphylla var. mollissima (Blume) Prain & Burkill.;
Dioscorea triphylla var. reticulata (Hook.f.) Prain & Burkill.;
Helmia daemona (Roxb.) Kunth.;
Helmia hirsuta (Blume) Kunth.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Baichandi, K-Kulu, G-Tikur, Intoxicating Yam, Asiatic Bitter Yam, Podava Kelengu, Baichandi, Bhul Kand, Dukar Kand, Hastyaluka, Kavalakodi, Pei Perendai, Periperendai, Chanda gadda, Puli dumpa, Tellaagini geddalu, Thella chanda gadda, Thella gadda |
| Plant Family | : | Dioscoreaceae |
| Description | : | Climbing herb with a fibrous root system. Tubers renewed annually from a superficial corm, from which they grow as lobes, in outline globose, sometimes slightly elongated, pale yellow to light grey; flesh white to lemon-yellow. Stem twining to the left, firm, 9 mm or more in diameter, usually prickly, drying bright yellowish, glabrescent. Bulbils absent. Leaves trifoliolate, herbaceous to chartaceous, pubescent; middle leaflet oblong-elliptical (rarely obovate or tripartite), up to 30 cm × 28 cm, acuminate; lateral leaflets inequilateral, the outer half 3-nerved; petiole usually longer than the middle leaflet, usually with small prickles on the back; petiolules up to 1 cm long. Male inflorescence spike-like, on leafless branches, 2-3-compounded, up to 50 cm long, with closely packed or spaced sessile flowers, fertile stamens 6. Female inflorescence solitary from upper leaf axils, pendulous, with flowers spaced. Fruit a large woody capsule, honey-coloured, 3-winged, facing upwards; wings 40-60 mm × 10-12 mm, margin sometimes freed in dehiscence. Seed winged. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | tubers used to kill worms in wounds. Various plant parts used in whitlow, sores, boils, and bites of rabbit, jackal or dog. In India, tubers used for birth control. pounded leaves applied to sores of yaw. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Dioscorine; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://www.nature.com/articles/1681090a
- https://uses.plantnet_project.org/en/Dioscorea_hispida_(PROSEA)
- https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Intoxicating%20Yam.html
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/243782 |
| 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 : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| 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 hispida Dennst. - intoxicating yam |