Cuscuta reflexa Roxb.
Cuscuta reflexa Roxb.
Cuscuta reflexa Roxb.
MH169 : Cuscuta reflexa Roxb.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 339 |
| Synonym | : | Cuscuta elatior Choisy;
Cuscuta grandiflora Wall.;
Cuscuta hookeri Sweet;
Cuscuta macrantha G. Don;
Cuscuta megalantha Steud.;
Cuscuta pentandra Heyne ex Engelm.;
Cuscuta reflexa var. grandiflora Engelmann;
Cuscuta verrucosa Sweet;
Kadurias reflexa (Roxb.) Rafin.;
Monogynella reflexa (Roxb.) J. Holub; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Amarvel, Dodder, Akashbel, Nirmali, Giant Dodder, Akasavalli, Moodillathalli, Akasakarudakodi, Akhsi lota, |
| Plant Family | : | Cuscutaceae |
| Description | : | Stem thick, branched, glabrous, or slightly pubescent, mostly not interlaced, succulent, light brown to dark brown. Leaves persistent, cup-shaped, fleshy, margin scarious, obovate obtuse, 1-2.0 x c.1.0 mm. Flowers arranged in paniculate cymes, ivory white, pedicellate, 5.5-7.5 mm long; pedicel 0.5-2.0 (-7) mm long, or obsolete; bracts leaf-like. Calyx lobes 5, fleshy, margin scarious, rounded ovate-obtuse, deeply divided overlapping at the base, 0.7-3.0 x 1.5-2.5 mm, tube c. 1 mm long. Corolla lobes 5, ivory white, obtuse, upright, spreading or reflexed, 1-1.5 x 0.5-0.7 mm; corolla tube 2-3 mm long; scales scarious, reaching the middle of the corolla tub, fringed, c. 1 mm long. Stamens 5, filaments linear, 2-3 mm long, fused filaments prominent like a vein in the petal; anther oblong, basifixed, 1-1.5 mm long. Ovary conical, fleshy, 1-2 mm long; style 1, thick, c. 0.5 mm long, or obsolete stigmas 2, unequal, conical to elongated, dark brown, 0.7-1.0 stun long; ovules 4, oblong-elliptical, c. 0.3 x c. 0.2 mm. Capsule 1-3 x 2-3 mm, globose-conical, brown, not depressed, without intrastylar opening, not circumscissile with a definite line of cleavage, i.e. dehiscing irregularly with remains of sepal lobes below, style and stigma at the top. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | headache, labour pain, bone fracture, fever, rheumatism, impotence, premature ejaculation, sperm leakage, frequent urination, ringing in the ears, lower back pain, sore knees, leucorrhea, dry eyes, blurred vision, and tired eyes. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: kaempferol-3-O-glucoside; Myricetin; benzopyrones; astragallin; quercetin; quercetin-3-O-glucoside; beta-sitosterol; bergenin; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (4): Beta-sitosterol; Quercetin; Kaempferol; Myricetin; |
| 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=200018823
- http://www.ukjpb.com/article_details.php?id=43 |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Ethnomedicinal plants used in skin treatment by Korkus of Melghat Dist. Amravati (MS), India"; Life Sciences Leaflets (2011); 178-191 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 | : Solanales |
| Family | : Cuscutaceae - Dodder family |
| Genus | : Cuscuta L. - dodder |
| Species | : Cuscuta reflexa Roxb. |