Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH250 : Chenopodium murale L.

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 447

Synonym : Chenopodiastrum murale(L.) S. Fuentes, Uotila & Borsch.;

Plant Common Name : Chandanbatwa, Nettle-leaved Goosefoot, Australian-spinach, salt-green, and sowbane,

Plant Family : Chenopodiaceae

Description : an annual herbaceous weed. It spreads by seeds, and is green, sparingly mealy, 20-70 cm. Stem ascending to erect, generally branching, more or less angular and thickened at base. Leaves 1-7 x 0.5-4 cm, alternate, broadly triangular in outline, dark-green, rather fleshy. Petiolate, rhombic-ovate to rhombic-oblong, cuneate at base, acute to acuminate at apex, irregularly, unequally and acutely toothed, glabrous or somewhat mealy, mainly on lower surface (Zohary, 1966). Inflorescences axillary and terminal, paniculate, divaricately branched, leafy at the base, with dense or loose clustures. Flowers hermaphrodite, small, greenish. Sepals five, hooded, green, bluntly keeled, enclosing the fruit. Pericarp membranous, hardly separable from seed. Seeds 1-1.5 mm in diam., black, slightly shining, lens-shaped, acutely keeled at margin, minutely pitted, edible.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : Plant is nutritive, diuretic, mild purgative, emollient, antihelmintic, tranquilizer, tonic for liver. Leaves are edible.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: oxalic acid;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (1):

Oxalic acid;

Plant's Current Status : -

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - https://www.cabi.org/isc/datasheet/12652 - http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Chenopodium+murale

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 : Caryophyllidae
Order : Caryophyllales
Family : Chenopodiaceae - Goosefoot family
Genus : Chenopodium L. - goosefoot
Species : Chenopodium murale L. - nettleleaf gooseffot

Chenopodium murale L. - nettleleaf gooseffot
Chenopodium murale L. - nettleleaf gooseffot
Chenopodium murale L. - nettleleaf gooseffot