Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH266 : Girardinia zeylanica Decne.

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 478

Synonym : Girardinia diversifolia (Link) Friis; Girardinia adoensis (Steud.) Wedd.; Girardinia armata Kunth nom. illeg.; Girardinia chingianae S.S.Chien; Girardinia condensata (Hochst. ex Steud.) Wedd.; Girardinia erosa Decne.; Girardinia formosana Hayata ex Yamam.; Girardinia furialis Blume; Girardinia heterophylla (Vahl) Decne.; Girardinia hibiscifolia Miq.; Girardinia javanica Wedd.; Girardinia leschenaultiana Decne.; Girardinia longispica Hand.-Mazz.; Girardinia palmata Blume nom. illeg.; Girardinia vahlii Blume nom. illeg.; Girardinia vitifolia Franch. nom. illeg.; Girardinia vitifolia Wedd.; Urtica adoensis Hochst.; Urtica adoensis Hochst. ex Steud.; Urtica buraei H. Lév.; Urtica condensata Hochst. ex Steud.; Urtica diversifolia Link; Urtica heterophylla Vahl; Urtica lobatifolia S.S. Ying; Urtica palmata Forssk.;

Plant Common Name : K- Agel Zara, Himalayan nettle, Nilghiri nettle, Bichchhoo

Plant Family : Urticaceae

Description : Subshrubs with white stinging hairs. Leaves alternate, 3-7-lobed, 8-15 x 10-17 cm, base cordate, lobes margin inciso-serrate, densely strigose, 3-ribbed from base; stipules to 1.5 x 1 cm, broadly oblong, auricled, acute; petiole to 10 cm long, reddish. Male flowers in axillary, cylindrical branched or unbranched spikes, white; tepals 4, c. 2 mm long, ovate, cucullate; stamens 4; pistillode globose. Female flowers in subterminal heads; tepals connate into a ventricose tube, 2-4-lobed; ovary flattened, ovate, style filiform. Achenes c. 3 mm across, compressed.

Plant Location in Melghat : Chikhaldara

Medicinal Use / Activity : the plant itself has medicinal value, and Nettle Tea has been used in Europe for many centuries. The leaves should not be touched with bare hands, but dried or boiled thoroughly in water , are used as diuretic, anti- rheumatic, anti-allergic and also for lactating mothers. The other parts of the plant are also useful for production of oils, biomass and fibre or paper.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: scopoletin; kaempferol; Beta-sitosterol;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2):

Beta-sitosterol;

Kaempferol;

Plant's Current Status : -

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Bichchhoo.html - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/229814 - http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTotal_ZGYX201223021.htm

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 :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass :
Order : Rosales
Family : Urticaceae
Genus : Girardinia
Species : Girardinia zeylanica

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