Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH117 : 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
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.

Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC.
Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC.
Emilia sonchifolia (L.) DC.