Argemone mexicana L. - Mexican pricklypoppy
Argemone mexicana L. - Mexican pricklypoppy
Argemone mexicana L. - Mexican pricklypoppy
MH002 : Argemone mexicana L.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 7 |
| Synonym | : | Argemone leiocarpa Greene.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Pivala Dhotra, Bilayati, K-Killai, Mexican poppy, Mexican prickly poppy, flowering thistle, cardo or cardosanto
Mexican Prickly Poppy, Mexican poppy, Prickly Poppy, Siyal-Kanta, Satyanashi, Bharband, Datturigidda, Phirangi dhutro, Ponnummattu, Khomthongpee, Firangi dhotra, Kshirini, Swarnakshiri, Kudiyotti, Brahmadandi, Satyaanaasi, Thaakal, Sungure Kaandaa, Kaande |
| Plant Family | : | Papaveraceae |
| Description | : | annual herb, growing up to 150 cm with a slightly branched tap root. Its stem is branched and usually extremely prickly. It exudes a yellow juice when cut. It has showy yellow flowers. Leaves are thistle-like and alternate, without leaf stalks (petioles), toothed (serrate) and the margins are spiny. The grey-white veins stand out against the bluish-green upper leaf surface. The stem is oblong in cross-section. Flowers are at the tips of the branches (are terminal) and solitary, yellow and of 2.5-5 cm diameter. Fruit is a prickly oblong or egg-shaped (ovoid) capsule. Seeds are very numerous, nearly spherical, covered in a fine network of veins, brownish black and about 1 mm in diameter. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Common throughout in stream and river beds |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Root - Skin diseases, relieve kidney pain;
Seeds - Laxative, Anti-cancer(Elisa et al., 2015) |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Sanguinarine; Dihydrosanguinarine; Dehydrocorydalmine; Jatrorrhizine; Columbamine; Oxy-berberine; Berberine; Protopine; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2): Berberine; Sanguinarine; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Common |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore MA and PA Joshi (1988) Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve, Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat.
- Elisa, P., Elisa, D., Fiorenza, O., Guendalina, L., Beatrice, B., Paolo, L., et al. (2015). Antiangiogenic and antitumor activities of berberine derivative NAX014 compound in a transgenic murine model of HER2/neupositive mammary carcinoma. Carcinogenesis 36, 1169–1179. doi: 10.1093/carcin/bgv103 |
| Reference | : | ~ Holaly E. Gbekley, Gnatoulma Katawa, Simplice D. Karou, SKokou Anani, Tchacondo Tchadjobo, Yaovi Ameyapoh, Komlan Batawila, and Jacques Simpore; "Ethnobotanical Study Of Plants Used To Treat Asthma In The Maritime Region In Togo"; Afr J Tradit Complement Altern Med. (2017); 14(1): 196-212 PMID : 28480398 ~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 PMID : ~ Das, DC.; Sinha, NK.; Chattopadhyay JC.; Das M. and Samanta P.; "The use of medicinal plants for the treatment of Gonorrhea and Syphilis in south west Bengal of India"; International Journal of Phytomedicine (2013); 5: 14-17 PMID : ~ Rajendra Prasad Bharti, Abhilasha shrivastava, Jagjeevan Ram Choudhary, Asha Tiwari and N. K. Soni; "Ethno Medicinal Plants used by Tribal Communities in Vindhya region of Rewa and Sidhi District of Madhya Pradesh, India"; IOSR Journal of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences (2013); 8(6): 23-28 PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Magnoliidae |
| Order | : Papaverales |
| Family | : Papaveraceae - Poppy family |
| Genus | : Argemone L. - pricklypoppy |
| Species | : Argemone mexicana L. - Mexican pricklypoppy |