Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH168 : Cuscuta chinensis Lam.

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 338

Synonym : Cuscuta americana Thunb. ex Engelm.; Cuscuta aphylla Steud.; Cuscuta capillaris Wall.; Cuscuta carinata R. Br.; Cuscuta exigua Herb. Par. ex Engelm.; Cuscuta fimbriata Bunge ex Engelm.; Cuscuta hyalina Wight; Cuscuta maritima Makino; Cuscuta sulcata Roxb.; Grammica aphylla Lour.; Grammica chinensis (Lam.) Hadac & Chrtek; Pentake chinense Rafin.;

Plant Common Name : Amarvel, Common Dodder, Makhanio, Chinese Dodder,

Plant Family : Cuscutaceae

Description : Stem slender, 0.6-0.8 mm across, pale yellow, glabrous, smooth. Flower in dense glomerules or very rarely arranged in small umbelliform inflorescence, 2-4 mm long; pedicel as long as or slightly longer than calyx; bracts narrowly triangular, keeled, entire nearly transparent. Calyx loose about the corolla, ± reaching the corolla lobes, calyx lobes triangular-ovate, thickened and fleshy towards the tops to form a carina, also more or less, thickned below the sinuses, slightly overlapping obtuse or acutish, 2-2.5 mm long. Corolla slightly longer than calyx, slightly globular, becoming more so as the fruit develops; corolla lobes triangular-ovate or oblong-ovate, spreading, acute or obtuse fleshy with or without a short carina towards the tip, ± equal or shorter than the tube, tip often inflexed. Stamens nearly half the length of corolla lobes; filament flat, pale, longer than the anther; anther ovate-cordate, yellow, scale large; reaching the base of the filaments, fringed with long or medium length processes. Ovary depressed-globose; style 2 stout or slender, thin, divergent, as long m or slightly longer than the ovary; stigma capitate. Fruit a capsule, flattened to globose, c. 3 mm across, membranous, depressed, dehiscing at the base by an uneven, transverse suture, surmounted by corolla and styles. Seeds 2-4, in each eapsule, 1.25 nun long, pale brown, with narrow oblong hilum.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : seeds used for the treatment of autoimmune diseases; improving the differentiation and proliferation of osteoblasts; preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases; Aphrodisiac; Demulcent; Diaphoretic; Hepatic; Kidney; Ophthalmic; Tonic;

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: quercetin 3-O-beta-D-galactoside-7-O-beta-D-glucoside; quercetin 3-O-beta-D-apiofuranosyl-(1-->2)-beta-D-galactoside; hyperoside; isorhamnetin; kaempferol; quercetin; d-sesamin; 9(R)-hydroxy-d-sesamin; beta-sitosterol; d-pinoresinol; daucosterol; Hyperin;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (5):

Beta-sitosterol;

Quercetin;

Kaempferol;

Isorhamnetin;

Sesamin;

Plant's Current Status : -

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200018812 - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/32153?pos= - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12774382 - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12587208 -

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 : Solanales
Family : Cuscutaceae - Dodder family
Genus : Cuscuta L. - dodder
Species : Cuscuta chinensis

Cuscuta chinensis
Cuscuta chinensis