Cucumis callosus (Rottb.) Cogn.
MH081 : Cucumis callosus (Rottb.) Cogn.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 207 |
| Synonym | : | Bryonia callosa Rottb.;
Cucumis melo Blanco.;
Cucumis prophetarum Wall.;
Cucumis pseudocolocynthis Royle.;
Cucumis pubescens Wall.;
Cucumis pyriformis Roxb. ex Wight & Arn.;
Cucumis trigonus Roxb.;
Cucumis turbinatus Roxb.;
Ecballium lambertianum (Ser.) M. Roem.;
Momordica lambertiana Ser.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Jangli Kakdi, Tigger melon |
| Plant Family | : | Cucurbitaceae |
| Description | : | Perennial climbers; stems 1.0-1.5 m, slender, angular, rough with short, rigid hairs. Leaves alternate, 3-6 cm long, suborbicular, base cordate, palmately 5-7 lobed, lobes round or ovate-oblong, often narrowed at the base, apex round, dentate or lobulate; petioles 2-6 cm long, slender, hispid. Plants monoecious. Male flowers often solitary; peduncles 0.5-1.0 cm long; calyx-tube narrow campanulate, ca. 3 mm long; lobes subulate, 1.5-2.0 mm long; corolla yellow, 6-7 mm long, lobes ovate, oblong, acute; staminal filaments short; anthers ca. 2 mm long, appendage of the connective shorter than anthers; pistillode ca. 1 mm long. Female flowers: peduncles 2-3 cm long; ovary densely hairy; style 1.5-2.0 mm long; stigmas converging, ca. 2.5 mm long. Fruits obovoid; seeds ca. 5 x 2 mm, 1 mm thick, oblong, white. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Among grasses, fields,along stream and river margines |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | anti-diabetic, anti-oxidant, ANTI-HYPERLIPIDAEMIC; Fruit is traditionally used to prevent insanity to strong memory and remove vertigo. The seeds are cooling and astringent and useful in bilious disorder. diabetics; cooling effect, improve appetite, easy bowl syndrome, relives stomach pain, vomiting and constipation; indigestion, dropsy, and pulp of fruit used in abortion (abortifacient) and to increase menses for women; epilepsy and Diarrhea |
| 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
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/225643 |
| 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 | : Violales |
| Family | : Cucurbitaceae - Cucumber family |
| Genus | : Cucumis L. - melon |
| Species | : Cucumis callosus (Rottb.) Cogn. |