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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH240 : Alternanthera pungens Kunth

Plant Category : Herbs
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 436
Synonym : Achyranthes leiantha (Seub.) Standl.; Achyranthes repens L.; Alternanthera achyrantha (L.) R. Br. ex Sweet; Alternanthera repens (L.) Link, non J.F. Gmel.; Achyranthes leiantha (Seub.) Standl.; ....; Alternanthera achyrantha R.Br. ex Sweet; ....; Bucholzia spinescens Gillies ex Moq.; Celosia echinata Humb. & Bonpl. ex Schult.; Desmochaeta sordida Bunbury; Guilleminea procumbens Rojas Acosta; Illecebrum pungens (Kunth) Spreng.; Pityranthus crassifolius Mart.; Pupalia sordida Moq.; Telanthera pungens (Kunth) Moq.

Plant Common Name : Khaki weed; Creeping Chaff weed;
Plant Family : Amaranthaceae
Description : Prostrate herbs. Leaves to 1.5 x 1 cm, deltoid to obovate, apex obtuse, base narrowed, short, glabrous. Spikes to 10 x 6 mm, 2-3 together, axillary, sessile; bracts and bracteoles equal, 5 mm long, scarious, aristate. Flowers densely packed; tepals 5, outer three larger, 5 mm long, lanceolate, aristate, one oblong, obtuse, inner smaller, boat shaped, keeled, aristate, all 3-ribbed, barbed at base; stamens 5, filaments united at base; ovary obovoid, stigma capitate.
Plant Location in Melghat : -
Medicinal Use / Activity : The plant is diuretic. A decoction is used internally to treat gonorrhea.
Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: alpha and Beta-spinasterols; azulene; alpha-borneol; bornylacetate; camphene; camphore; 1,8-cineol; alpha-cucumene; p-cymene; elemol acetate; eudesmol; genaniol; limonene; linalool; myrcene; Beta-ocimene; alpha-pinene; Beta-pinene; alpha-terpineol; alpha-terpinolene and alpha-thujone in flower oil

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (13):

Terpinolene;

Alpha-terpineol;

Borneol;

Limonene;

Camphor;

Alpha-pinene;

P-cymene;

Beta-pinene;

Camphene;

Ocimene;

Myrcene;

Linalool;

Spinasterol;

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/228704 - http://www.bsienvis.nic.in/Database/bsi_3946.aspx
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ SS Semenya, MJ Potgieter, and LJC Erasmus; "Exotic and indigenous problem plants species used, by the Bapedi, to treat sexually transmitted infections in Limpopo Province, South Africa"; Afr Health Sci. (2013); 13(2): 320-326 PMID : 24235930

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass : Caryophyllidae
Order : Caryophyllales
Family : Amaranthaceae - Amaranth family
Genus : Alternanthera Forssk. - joyweed
Species : Alternanthera pungens Kunth - khakiweed

Alternanthera pungens Kunth - khakiweed
Alternanthera pungens Kunth - khakiweed
Alternanthera pungens Kunth - khakiweed
Alternanthera pungens Kunth - khakiweed