Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MC059 : Ceropegia bulbosa Roxb.

Plant Category : Climbers

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :

Synonym : Ceropegia edulis, Ceropegia esculenta, Ceropegia lushii

Plant Common Name : Bulbous Ceropegia • Hindi: hedulo, khadula, khapparkadu • Kannada: bittiruka, halike, hallike, halluka • Marathi: ankalodya, gayala, gayli, gilodayam • Sanskrit: ankalodya, gilodayam, gilodya • Telugu: batchali dumpa, langatai, manchi mande

Plant Family : APOCYNACEAE

Description : The leaves are almost stalkless to stalked, round to ovate leaves. The flowers are pale gray, becoming greyish-purple towards the mouth. Flowes are borne in stalked clusters, 3-5 flowered, arising between the leaf-stalks. Stalks are 1.2-2.6 cm long. Flower-stalks are 3-7 mm long. Flowers are up to 2.5 cm long, hairless on the exterior. whitish green, with purple marking, lobes deep purple, 4.5 cm long, narrow, hairy. Outer corona lobes are rounded to shortly pointed, inner lobes linear, about 2 mm long. Seed-pods are 10 x 0.4-0.5 cm, tapering towards tip, hairless. Seeds 8-9 mm long, flattened, ovate-oblong. The tubers are approx 35-430 gm, 5-12 cm in diameter, sometime flattened, gray to white colour. The vines can reach 2 metres. In India the tubers and leaves of this species are eaten. The tubers are often boiled befor consumption (e.g. in Andhra Pradesh), because they contain a bitter substance, the alkaloid Ceropegin. Flowering: July-August.

Plant Location in Melghat :

Medicinal Use / Activity : In Rajasthan this species is used for many purposes, e.g. the seeds, brayed to a paste, are used to cure deafness, while this paste is dropped into the ears. An decoction made from the tubers is used, orally, to ease dropping out urinary bladder stones. Furthermore the tubers are eaten, either raw or cooked. The tubers are considered to be digestive and tonic.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Pentobarbital;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0):

Plant's Current Status :

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book

Reference : ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass : Asteridae
Order : Gentianales
Family : Apocynaceae
Genus : Ceropegia
Species : Ceropegia bulbosa Roxb.

Ceropegia bulbosa Roxb.
Ceropegia bulbosa Roxb.