Blainvillea acmella
Blainvillea acmella
Blainvillea acmella
MH101 : Blainvillea acmella (L.) Philipson
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 241 |
| Synonym | : | Acmella linnaei Cass. [Illegitimate]; Acmella mauritanica Rich.;
Bidens acmella (L.) Lam.;
Blainvillea alba Edgew.;
Blainvillea gayana var. lanceolata Chiov.;
Blainvillea hispida Edgew.;
Blainvillea latifolia (L.f.) DC.; Blainvillea latifolia var. angustifolia DC.;
Blainvillea polycephala Gardner; Blainvillea racemosa Gardner (Unresolved);
Blainvillea rhomboidea var. lanceolata (Poir.)DC.;
Ceratocephalus acmella (L.) Kuntze; Coreopsis acmella (L.) E.H.L.Krause; Eclipta latifolia L.f.;
Pyrethrum acmella (L.) Medik.; Spilanthes acmella (L.) Murray; Verbesina acmella L. [Illegitimate]; Verbesina lanceolata Poir. (Unresolved); (=) Blainvillea gayana Cass.; Spilanthes acmella (L.) L.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Kanghi, Paniculated Spot Flowers, Annual Para Cress, Para Cress Flower, Para Cress, |
| Plant Family | : | Asteraceae / Compositae |
| Description | : | Herbs, annual. Stems erect, 40-60 cm tall, branched. Lower leaves opposite, with up to 1 cm petioles, blade ovate to ovate-lanceolate, 3-6 × 2-3 cm, both surfaces scabrid, base cuneate, margin sparsely serrate, apex acuminate; upper leaves smaller, usually alternate, ovate to ovate-oblong, 2-3 × 1.3-1.5 cm, base usually rounded. Capitula axillary or terminal, ca. 1 cm in diam.; peduncles slender, 15-40 mm, with spreading hairs; phyllaries 2-seriate, outer papery, green, ovate-oblong, ca. 6 mm, dorsally densely hairy, apex shortly acute or obtuse, inner ovate to oblong-linear, ca. 5 mm, sparsely pubescent, apex acute; paleae oblong-lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, dorsally pubescent, apex aristiform. Ray florets 1-seriate, yellow or yellowish white, lamina ca. 3 mm, apex 2-4-toothed. Disk florets campanulate, limbs 5-toothed. Achenes densely pubescent, those in female florets 3-angled, ca. 4 mm, those in bisexual florets compressed, ca. 5 mm; pappus short, unequal, 2-5. Fl. Apr-Jun. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Fairly common throughout among grasses on hill slopes |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Leaves are used in rheumatism, flowers are used for headache. useful in the treatment of malaria; |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: spilanthol; desacetyl ovatifolin; desacyl grazielic acid tiglate; ovatifolin; 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=2&taxon_id=200023542
-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3374932/
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0031942200831155 |
| 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 | : Asteridae |
| Order | : Asterales |
| Family | : Asteraceae / Compositae - Aster family |
| Genus | : Blainvillea |
| Species | : Blainvillea acmella |