Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MG030 : Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn.

Plant Category : Grasses

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 591

Synonym : Cynosurus indicus Linn. Eleusine japonica;

Plant Common Name : Indian Crowfoot Grass, Indian goosegrass, Wiregrass, Crowfootgrass, Malankuri, Balraja, Mandla, Jharnpriya kodu, Bilwagaja, Ganjalada hoo, Hecchulli hullu, Rannachani, Khurd, Khurd-mendi, Nandimukhi, Thippa ragi, Kevuru, Karuchodi, Kuror

Plant Family : Poaceae / Gramineae

Description : Tufted annual; culms 15-85 cm high, erect or geniculately ascending. Leaf-blades usually folded, 5-35 cm long, 2.5-6 mm wide. Inflorescence digitate, composed of 1-10(17) slender ascending spikes 3.5-15 cm long, a few spikes often set below the main apical cluster. Spikelets 3-9-flowered, elliptic, 4.6-7.8 mm long; lower glume 1.1-3.2(3.9) mm long. upper glume 1.8-4.7 mm long; lemmas lanceolate, 2.4-4.8 mm long, acute to subacute. Fl. & Fr. Per.: June-August.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : sudorific and febrifuge, roots used in the prevention of abortion (abortifacient). Root, is used in traditional medicine as a diuretic, anti-helminthic, diaphoretic and febrifuge and for treating cough and other ailments. The seed is sometimes used as famine food and also used in the treatment of liver complaints.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: C-glycosylflavone

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (1):

Flavone;

Plant's Current Status : -

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve

Reference : ~ 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 : Commelinidae
Order : Cyperales
Family : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family
Genus : Eleusine Gaertn. - goosegrass
Species : Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn. - Indian goosegrass

Eleusine indica (L.) Gaertn. - Indian goosegrass