Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC.
Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC.
Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC.
Plant Category | : | Herbs |
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 257 |
Synonym | : | Cacalia sonchifolia L.;
Crassocephalum sonchifolium (L.) Less.;
Emilia purpurea Cass.;
Emilia rigidula DC.;
Emilia sinica Miq.;
Gynura ecalyculata DC.;
Senecio sonchifolius (L.) Moench;
Senecio sonchifolius var. bogorensis Hochr.;
Senecio sonchifolius var. sonchifolius; |
Plant Common Name | : | Purple Sow Thistle, Cupid's shaving-brush, emilia, Flora's paint brush, red tassel-flower, hirankhuri, kirankuri, hirankuri, sadamandee, panom, undrachi, muyalccevi, mayarcevi, mulshevi, muyalccevi, ili kivi gida, elikivi gida, elikivisoppu, jumki hoo, sadimodi, sachimodi, binj-kudo, bonkapahua, sasasruti, sasasrutih, Revival macha, Mula pate, Chaulaane Jhaar |
Plant Family | : | Asteraceae / Compositae |
Description | : | Purple Sow Thistle is an annual herb with a branched taproot. Stems are weak, erect or often branched at the base, smooth or sparingly hairy, 10 to 60 cm tall. This species is recognized by the sow-thistle like leaves. Lower leaves are deeply and irregularly toothed, kidney-shaped, ovate, triangular-ovate or obovate, 4-16 cm long, 1-8 cm wide with narrowly winged stalks. Upper leaves are smaller, alternately arranged, usually entire, sometimes coarsely toothed, stalkless and somewhat clasping the main stem. Inflorescence is an involucrate flower head resembling a single flower, 1.2-1.4 cm long, 4-5 mm wide, urn-shaped, long-stalked, at the end of branches. Flowering branches usually dichotomously branched with 3-6 heads, each head or capitulum a composite of numerous florets. The cup of the flower-head is green, cylindrical, somewhat inflated below. Florets are 30-60 per head, purple, scarlet, red, pink, orange, white or lilac. Purple Sow Thistle is found in the Himalayas, up to altitudes of 2100 m. |
Plant Location in Melghat | : | Throughout common,on mud flats along stream and river banks,moist open grasslands, in shade of walls |
Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Fever, Sore throat, Diarrhea, Snake bite, |
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/229621
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Purple%20Sow%20Thistle.html |
Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Sonika Jain, Jaya Dwivedi, Pankaj Kumar Jain, Swaha Satpathy and Arjun Patra; "Medicinal Plants for Treatment of Cancer: A Brief Review"; Pharmacogn. J. (2016); 8(2): 87-102 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 | : Asteridae |
Order | : Asterales |
Family | : Asteraceae / Compositae - Aster family |
Genus | : Emilia Cass. - tasselflower |
Species | : Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC. |