Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH123 : Grangea maderaspatana (L.) Poir.

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 263

Synonym : Artemisia maderaspatana L.; Cotula anthemoides Lour.; Cotula maderaspatana (L.) Willd.; Cotula sphaeranthus Link; Grangea adansonii Cass.; Grangea aegyptiaca (Juss. ex Jacq.) DC.; Grangea glandulosa Fayed; Grangea hispida Humbert; Grangea maderaspatana var. maderaspatana; Grangea maderaspatana var. prostrata Zoll.; Grangea mucronata Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.; Grangea sphaeranthus (Link) K.Koch; Grangea strigosa Gand.; Tanacetum aegyptiacum Juss. ex Jacq.;

Plant Common Name : Madras Carpet, Mustaru, Bhediachim, Leibungou, Mashipatri, Masipathri, Nilampala, Mastaru, Davana, Namuti, Jhinkimudi

Plant Family : Asteraceae

Description : herb commonly seen in flat bunches in harvested fields, dry river and pond beds. This hairy, branched herb spreads from the roots and grows up to 70 cm in height. The buds are white and woolly. The leaves are alternate, stalkless, deeply cut, and divided into toothed lobes. Yellow flowering heads are borne opposite the leaves, and are short- stalked, rounded, and 8-10 mm across. The flowers are small, very numerous. The involucral-bracts are ovate, thick, rigid, and hairy. The achenes are cylindric, glandular, and about 2 mm long. The papus-hairs are connate, ending in a short, fimbriate tube.

Plant Location in Melghat : Occasional in moist open grasslands

Medicinal Use / Activity : Leaves are regarded in India as a valuable stomachic possessing deobstruent and antispasmodic properties, and are prescribed as an infusion and an electuary in cases of obstructed menses and hysteria. oestrogenicity, antifertility, analgesic, anti-inflammatory, antiarthritic, cytotoxic, anti-oxidant, Hepatoprotective, diuretic and anti-microbial activities

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: hardwickiic acid; clerodane; a nor clerodane; a secoclerodane; a norsecoclerodane; auranamide; grangolide; eudesmanolides; (-)frullanolide; murrayanol; 6-hydroxy-3,4,5alpha-trimethoxyflavone; flavone; 7,2,4alpha-trimethoxyflavone; labdane; clerodatetrean; chondrillasterone; chondrillasterol; strictic acid; gamma-gurjunene; terpinyl acetate; hinesol;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (1):

Flavone;

Plant's Current Status : IUCN Red - Least Concern

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Madras%20Carpet.html - https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/1624/c600ba6776069853d681e4275ebf821c13e4.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 :
Order : Asterales
Family : Asteraceae
Genus : Grangea
Species : Grangea maderaspatana (L.) Poir.

Grangea maderaspatana (L.) Poir.
Grangea maderaspatana (L.) Poir.
Grangea maderaspatana (L.) Poir.