Cleome chelidonii L.f.
Cleome chelidonii L.f.
Cleome chelidonii L.f.
MH005 : Cleome chelidonii L.f.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 11 |
| Synonym | : | Aubion chelidonii (L.f.) Raf.;
Cleome chelidonii var. pallae C.S.Reddy & V.S.Raju;
Cleome leschenaultii Schult. & Schult.f.;
Cleome schraderi Schult. & Schult.f.;
Corynandra pulchella Schrad. ex Spreng.;
Polanisia chelidonii DC.(Unresolved); Polanisia heterophylla Wall.(Unresolved);
Polanisia leschenaultii DC.(Unresolved);
Polanisia schraderi DC.(Unresolved); |
| Plant Common Name | : | Celandine Spider Flower |
| Plant Family | : | Cleomaceae / Capparaceae |
| Description | : | An annual, erect, branched herb, 15-80 cm tall, stems angular, with sparse, appressed, pale, stiff hairs with a bulbous base; leaflets 6-7 below to 1-3 apically, obovate, densely appressed-hairy, central leaflet up to 4(-6) cm × 1.2(-1.8) cm, base cuneate, apex rounded to acute, firmly herbaceous, petiole 8-10 cm in lower leaves, almost absent in higher ones; raceme elongated, pedicel 1.5-3 cm long, flowers actinomorphic, sepals elliptical, 2-4 mm long, petals 4(-8), mostly obovate, 7-14 cm long, base narrowed, apex rounded, glabrous, light red-purple, stamens 30-40(-55), anthers 1 mm long, yellow; capsule linear, parallel-veined, 6-8 cm long, glabrous, beak 1-3 mm long; seeds 2 mm in diameter, cleft open, warty with scattered scales, dull blackish. C. chelidonii occurs in fallow rice fields, sugar cane fields on heavy clay, and freshwater swamps, in Java below 100 m altitude, and is sometimes so abundant that the field is coloured reddish-purple by the flowers. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Along pond margins and in open marshy grasslands |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The heated sap from the leaves is dropped into the ear to cure infections.
An infusion of the whole plant is used as a remedy for skin complaints.
The root is used as an Anthelmintic. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: - ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Not Common |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://uses.plantnet-project.org/en/Cleome_chelidonii_(PROSEA) |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
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| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Dilleniidae |
| Order | : Capparales |
| Family | : Cleomaceae / Capparaceae - Caper family |
| Genus | : Cleome L. - spiderflower |
| Species | : Cleome chelidonii L.f. |