Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH112 : Cyathocline purpurea (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) Kuntze

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 252

Synonym : Artemisia hirsuta Rottler ex Spreng.; Artemisia paniculata Rottler ex Wight; Artemisia stricta B.Heyne ex DC.; Artemisia stricta f. diffusa Pamp.; Cyathocline birmanica Gand.; Cyathocline lyrata Cass.; Cyathocline stricta DC.; Dichrocephala minutiflora Vaniot; Dichrocephala minutifolia Vaniot; Tanacetum purpureum Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don;

Plant Common Name : Bandhaniya, Gangotra, Gal phulle,

Plant Family : Asteraceae

Description : An erect, strongly aromatic, glandular-hairy annual or biennial herb; stems usually reddish or purplish-tinged, branched from the base, glandular-pubescent. Leaves sessile, variable in size and shape, 1 to 2-pinnatipartite, 5-15 cm long, upper leaves smaller, segments serrate-dentate to lobed, glabrescent or thinly hairy. Flowers variable in colour, borne in terminal corymbose panicles composed of heads 4-5 mm across on 2-5 mm long peduncles; involucral bracts pilose, linear-lanceolate, acute, 2-2.5 mm long; corolla composed of marginal filiform flowers 1.2-1.4 mm long and disc flowers 2 mm long with glandular-hairy lobes. Achenes 0.3 mm long, pappus absent.

Plant Location in Melghat : In the entire area,very common and abundant near water margins in stream and river beds,on wet rocks of certical cut faces of hill slopes,in drying ponds etc

Medicinal Use / Activity : cancer

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: santamarine; 9-beta-acetoxycostunolide; 9-beta-hydroxyparthenolide

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2):

9-beta-hydroxyparthenolide;

Costunolide;

Plant's Current Status : IUCN Red List - Least Concern

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18998133 - http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/177222/0 - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/229418

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 :
Order : Asterales
Family : Asteraceae
Genus : Cyathocline
Species : Cyathocline purpurea (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) Kuntze

Cyathocline purpurea (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) Kuntze
Cyathocline purpurea (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) Kuntze
Cyathocline purpurea (Buch.-Ham. ex D.Don) Kuntze