Polycarpaea corymbosa (L.) Lam. - oldman's cap
MH013 : Polycarpaea corymbosa (L.) Lam.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 23 |
| Synonym | : | Achyranthes corymbosa L.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Oldman’s cap, Palllipoondu |
| Plant Family | : | Caryophyllaceae |
| Description | : | Robust annual. Stems 10-30 cm, erect to ascending, branching from the base, white woolly at the base. Leaves opposite, or apparently whorled, 10-15 x 0.5-0.75 mm, linear to linear-subulate, 1-nerved, glabrous or nearly so when mature. Stipules c. 3 mm, lanceolate acuminate, ciliate. Flowers in compact, terminal cymes, with corymbose branching. Pedicels as long as or smaller than the sepals, woolly. Sepals 3-3.5 mm, lanceolate, acuminate, glabrous, entirely scarious silvery-white. Petals shorter than the sepals, emarginate. Capsule included in the sepals, dark brown. Valves with a narrow thickened yellow margin. Seeds small subtrigonous, smooth. Fl. Per.: February-March. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | On rocky substrata on plateaux |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | anti-inflammatory, astringent, demulcent; plant-spermicidal, applied as poultice, prescribed in jaundice in the form of pills with molasses |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: alpha-1-barrigenol; Camelliagenin; Stigmasterol ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (1): Stigmasterol; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- C.P. Khare; Indian Medicinal Plants, An Illustrated Dictionary Springer Verlag, Berlin/Heidelberg (2007), p. 219 508, 583 |
| 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 | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Caryophyllidae |
| Order | : Caryophyllales |
| Family | : Caryophyllaceae - Pink family |
| Genus | : Polycarpaea Lam. - polycarpaea |
| Species | : Polycarpaea corymbosa (L.) Lam. - oldman's cap |