Crinum defixum
Crinum defixum
MH279 : Crinum defixum Ker Gawl.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 498 |
| Synonym | : | Crinum viviparum (Lam.) R.Ansari & V.J.Nair;
Amaryllis coenosa Hook.f.;
Amaryllis vivipara Lam.;
Crinum defixum f. stephenhassardii Traub;
Crinum defixum var. ensifolium (Roxb.) Baker;
Crinum ensifolium Roxb.;
Crinum roxburghii Dalzell & A.Gibson;
Crinum viviparum var. ensifolium (Roxb.) R.Ansari & V.J.Nair; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Sukh-darshan, Bonpiaz |
| Plant Family | : | Liliaceae |
| Description | : | A large bulbous herb. Leaves 60-90 cm long, linear, obtuse or acute. Flowers white, 6-15 in an umbel at the end of a cylindric 45-75 cm scape; corolla tube 6.3-12.5 cm long, slender, cylindric, lobes as long as the tube, narrowly linear-lanceolate, subacute, reflexed or drooping, filaments shorter than the corolla-lobes. Fruit subglobose, 2.5 cm diam. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Along the water margin of Tapi and Sipna rivers |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Bulb is emollient and emetic; in small doses it is a nausant and diaphoretic. The bulb and stolon are very much used for the treatment of burns, whitlow, and carbuncle. In otitis a few drops of juice of the leaves are instilled in to the ear. In Rema Kalenga, bulbs are used for the treatment of stomach complaints of cow. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: caranine; crinamine; crinine;
galanthamine; galanthine; haemanthamine; hippestrine; lycorine; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (1): Lycorine; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Not Common, Red List Category - Least Concern |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.mpbd.info/plants/crinum_defixum.php
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/229388 |
| 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 | : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Subclass | : Liliidae |
| Order | : Liliales |
| Family | : Liliaceae - Lily family |
| Genus | : Crinum L. - swamplily |
| Species | : Crinum defixum |