Blumea eriantha
Blumea eriantha
MH102 : Blumea eriantha DC.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 242 |
| Synonym | : | - |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Asteraceae / Compositae |
| Description | : | Perennial herbs, grows upto 10-100 cm in height. Stem: terete, often divaricately branched, pilosestipilate gland in younger parts. Leaves: radical ones shortly petiolate, tapering at base, obovate, 2.18 x 0.6 cm, apex apiculate, margins spinulose-serrate, apical leaves sessile, elliptic-ovate to oblanceolate, all surfaces delnsely silky-pilose when young, scabrous adaxially with age. Flowers: capitula axillary and terminal, solitary or in clusters, stalk upto 3-5 cm long, glandular, elongated in fruit. Invol. bracts herbaceous, slightly longer than the florets, linear, pubescent abaxially. Ray-florets: pistillate, pappus white, corolla yellow, filiform, 0.3-0.35 cm long, 2-3 lobed, pubescent. Disc-florets: with abortive anthers, rarely hermaphrodite, pappus as in ray-florets, corolla yellow, tubular, 0.35-0.4 cm long with 5 triangular-ovate, sparsely papillate lobes. Anther-bases: when present longer than the thickened portion of the filament. Flowering during November-April and fruiting in April. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In stream and river beds |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | anti-cancer, Sudorific, carminative, diuretic and emmenagogue. Essential oil: anti-bacterial, anti-fungal. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: flavonol, erianthin, camptothecin, vincristine, vinblastine, taxol, podophyllotoxin, ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (4): Camptothecin; Vinblastine; Vincristine; Podophyllotoxin; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Not Common |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://bioinfo.bisr.res.in/project/domap/plant_details.php?plantid=0100
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4185048/pdf/12298_2014_Article_246.pdf |
| 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 | : Blumea DC. - false family |
| Species | : Blumea eriantha |