Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MG065 : Saccharum spontaneum L.

Plant Category : Grasses

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 628

Synonym : Imperata spontanea (Linn.) P. Beauv.; Saccharum canaliculatum Roxb.; Saccharum propinquum Steud.; Saccharum semidecumbens Roxb.;

Plant Common Name : K- Kans, kaich or kasa, Kans grass, Kaans , Ee, Pekkarimpu, Kaki ceruku, Kamis, Kansh, Kadu kabbu, Nannana, Kansado

Plant Family : Poaceae / Gramineae

Description : Tall rhizomatous perennial; culms 2-4 m high or more. Leaf-blades 0.5-2 m long, up to 7.5 mm wide, gradually tapered towards the base into a narrow wing on either side of the petiole, glaucous. Panicle 25-40 (-60) cm long, the peduncle usually hairy; racemes 3-15 cm long, usually much longer than the supporting branches, the internodes and pedicels hirsute. Spikelets all alike, 2.5-5(-7) mm long, the callus bearded with silky white hairs 2-3 times as long as the spikelet; glumes equal, subcoriaceous in the lower third, glabrous on the back, often ciliate on the margins above; lower lemma lanceolateelliptic, ciliate on the margins; upper lemma very narrow, very shortly awned. Fl. & Fr. Per.: July-September.

Plant Location in Melghat : In river beds

Medicinal Use / Activity : treatment of mental illness and mental disturbances, gynaecological troubles, respiratory disease

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: 3,3,4,5,7- Penta hydroxy flavone; 3,5-Dihydroxy-4-methoxy-7-oxyglucopyronoside flavone; 3,3,4,5-Tetra hydroxy-6,8-dimethoxy flavone;

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 - Jeyaraman Amutha Iswarya Devi and Arumugam Kottai Muthu, "Isolation and characterization of active components derived from whole plant of Saccharum spontaneum (Linn.)" Der Pharmacia Lettre, 2015, 7 (8):197 to 203 - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200026234

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 : Saccharum L. - sugarcane
Species : Saccharum spontaneum L. - wild sugarcane

Saccharum spontaneum L. - wild sugarcane
Saccharum spontaneum L. - wild sugarcane