Cleome gynandra L. - spiderwisp
Cleome gynandra L. - spiderwisp
Cleome gynandra L. - spiderwisp
MH006 : Cleome gynandra L.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 12 |
| Synonym | : | Cleome acuta Schumach. & Thonn.;
Cleome affinis (Blume) Spreng. nom. illeg.;
Cleome alliacea Blanco.;
Cleome alliodora Blanco.;
Cleome blumeana D.Dietr.;
Cleome bungei Steud.;
Cleome candelabrum Sims.;
Cleome denticulata Schult. & Schult.f.;
Cleome eckloniana Schrad.;
Cleome flexuosa F.Dietr. ex Schult. & Schult.f.;
Cleome heterotricha Burch.;
Cleome muricata (Schrad.) Schult. & Schult.f.;
Cleome oleracea Welw.;
Cleome pentaphylla L.;
Cleome pubescens Sieber ex Steud.;
Cleome rosea Eckl. ex Steud. nom. inval.
Cleome triphylla L.;
Gymnogonia pentaphylla (L.) R. Br. ex Steud.;
Gynandropsis affinis Blume.;
Gynandropsis candelabrum (Sims) Sweet.;
Gynandropsis denticulata DC.;
Gynandropsis glandulosa C.Presl.;
Gynandropsis gynandra (L.) Briq.;
Gynandropsis heterotricha DC.;
Gynandropsis muricata Schrad.;
Gynandropsis ophitocarpa DC.;
Gynandropsis palmipes DC.;
Gynandropsis pentaphylla (L.) DC.;
Gynandropsis pentaphylla Blanco.;
Gynandropsis sinica Miq.;
Gynandropsis triphylla DC.;
Gynandropsis viscida Bunge.;
Pedicellaria pentaphylla (L.) Schrank.;
Pedicellaria triphylla (L.) Pax.;
Podogyne pentaphylla (L.) Hoffmanns.;
Sinapistrum pentaphyllum (L.) Medik.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Ajagandha, Pasugandhi, Hulhul, Hurhur, Kavalia, Tilvan, Bhatvan, Mabli, Tilavana, Tilvant, Shona cabbage, African cabbage, spiderwisp, cat's whiskers, chinsaga, stinkweed |
| Plant Family | : | Cleomaceae / Capparaceae |
| Description | : | Perennial climbers with unbranched, glabrous tendrils, dioecious. Root tuberous. Leaves broadly ovate, membranous, c. 6.0 x 5.0 cm, glabrous on both sides, deeply 3-5-lobed, lobes trianglular ovate or oblong, acute, with undulate or minutely remotely denticulate margin; petiole 1-3 cm long, puberulous. Male flowers 5-6 cm across, yellow, on 4-6 cm long peduncles; bracts large, sessile, entire, glabrous, often ciliated or villous on both surfaces, cucullate, suborbicular or reniform, partly enclosing the flower. Petals 2-3 x 1.5-2.5 cm, obtuse. Female flowers yellow, on c. 2.5 cm long, ebracteate or minutely bracteate peduncles; calyx lobes linear-lanceolate, 5-6 mm long, villous; corolla similar to male flowers. Ovary ovoid, covered with long and soft papillae. Fruit ovoid or ellipsoid, 3-5 cm long, 2-3.5 cm across, yellow when mature, densely covered with soft spines, shortly beaked (rostrate) at apex. Seeds somewhat compressed, 6-7 x 5-6 mm, irregularly corrugated. Fl. Per.: July-October. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Mostly near villages |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | anti-inflammatory, pain, swelling, fever, cough, asthma, skin and urinary diseases. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: - ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200022700 |
| Reference | : | ~ Jennifer L. McCracken, Sreenivas P. Veeranki, Bill T. Ameredes, William J. Calhoun; "Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in Adults - A Review"; JAMA (2017); 318(3): 279-290 PMID : 28719697 ~ A. Mangaiyarkarasi and M.H. Muhammad Ilyas; "Phytochemical Screening and Fluorescence Analysis of Cleome gynandra L. Leaves"; Int. J. Curr. Res. Biosci. Plant Biol. (2015); 2(9): 58-65 PMID : ~ Chen S; "Natural products triggering biological targets - a review of the anti-inflammatory phytochemicals targeting the arachidonic acid pathway in allergy asthma and rheumatoid arthritis."; Curr Drug Targets (2011); 12(3): 288-301 PMID : 20955151 ~ Park HS, Kim SR, Kim JO and Lee YC; "The roles of phytochemicals in bronchial asthma"; Molecules (2010); 15(10): 6810-34 PMID : 20924320 ~ Balaji Kasirajan, Rajadurai Maruthamuthu, Vidhya Gopalakrishnan, Krithika Arumugam, Hudson Asirvatham, Vidya Murali, Ramya Mohandass and Anusha Bhaskar; "A database for medicinal plants used in treatment of asthma"; Bioinformation (2007); 2(3): 105-106 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Sonika Jain, Jaya Dwivedi, Pankaj Kumar Jain, Swaha Satpathy and Arjun Patra; "Medicinal Plants for Treatment of Cancer: A Brief Review"; Pharmacogn. J. (2016); 8(2): 87-102 PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| 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 gynandra L. - spiderwisp |