Murdannia nudiflora (L.) Brenan - nakedstem dewflower
Murdannia nudiflora (L.) Brenan - nakedstem dewflower
Murdannia nudiflora (L.) Brenan - nakedstem dewflower
MH299 : Murdannia nudiflora (L.) Brenan
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 520 |
| Synonym | : | Aneilema bracteolatum var. majus Seub.;
Aneilema bracteolatum var. minus Seub.;
Aneilema compressum Dalzell;
Aneilema debile Wall., nom. nud.;
Aneilema diandrum Buch.-Ham. ex Wall., nom. nud.;
Aneilema diversifolium Hassk.;
Aneilema foliosum Hassk.;
Aneilema junghunianum Miq.;
Aneilema lancifolium Griff.;
Aneilema malabaricum (L.) Merr.;
Aneilema minutum (Blume) Kunth;
Aneilema nudicaule (Burm.f.) G.Don
Aneilema nudiflorum (L.) Sweet;
Aneilema nudiflorum var. compressum (Dalzell) C.B.Clarke;
Aneilema radicans D.Don;
Aneilema trichocoleum Schauer;
Callisia parvula Brandegee;
Commelina chinensis Osbeck;
Commelina diandra Steud., nom. inval.;
Commelina exilis Steud., nom. inval.;
Commelina minuta Blume;
Commelina nudicaulis Burm.f.;
Commelina nudiflora L.;
Commelina nudiflora f. angustifolia C.B.Clarke;
Commelina radicans (D.Don) Spreng.;
Commelina sellowii Schltdl.;
Cyanotis gueinzii Hassk.;
Ditelesia nudiflora (L.) Raf.;
Murdannia malabarica (L.) G.Brückn.;
Murdannia malabarica var. compressa ;(Dalzell) Santapau & S.K.Jain;
Phaeneilema diversifolium (Hassk.) G.Brückn.;
Phaeneilema malabaricum (L.) V.Naray.;
Phaeneilema nudiflorum (L.) G.Brückn.;
Stickmannia guyanensis Raf.;
Stickmannia longicollis Raf.;
Tradescantia cristata Fern.-Vill., nom. illeg.;
Tradescantia malabarica L.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Naked-Stem Dewflower, Doveweed, Kansura, Tali-pullu, Tandal pambai, Dawng, Kane jhar, Masino kane |
| Plant Family | : | Commelinaceae |
| Description | : | It is an annual or perennial herb, 8-115 cm tall, with a basal leaf rosette, disappearing or absent in older plants, with one to several creeping leafy branches, being either erect, semi-erect, ascendant, or at the base. Leaves are alternately arranged, sessile, larger ones linear-lanceolate, smaller ones oblong-ovate, glabrous, or with sparsely-arranged trichomes or hairs, 1.7-28 or 1.7-45 cm x 5-25 mm, with a broad leaf base, acute apex, short leaf sheath, and villous. Roots are normal, not swollen. Inflorescences terminally- or axillary-arranged, either unbranched or with 2-3 branches, no large cucullate bracts; bracts 25-35 mm oblong-cucullate, rather thin, membranous, caducous, located at the base of 25-40 mm long, glabrous pedicels, sepals 3, green, oblong, obtuse, glabrous, 3.5-5.0 mm long, petals 3, oblong to ovate-oblong, obtuse, purplish to magenta in colour, 4.5-5.5 mm long. Stamens free, 2 fertile with densely long-hairy filaments and bluish-coloured anthers; staminoids 4, with long-bearded filaments, the 3 opposite the petals with thickened, 3-lobed, light yellow coloured top, the fourth much reduced in size. The ovary is glabrous. Fruits condensed, ellipsoid-globose, shortly acuminate, glabrous, 4-6 mm in diameter, 3-loculate, each cell with 1-2 seeds, rarely with more than 6 seeds per fruit. Seeds smooth to coarse reticulate, ribbed. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | cold, cough, haemoptysis and tuberculosis, diuretic, urinary tract infections including cystitis, dysuria and strangury, |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: n-tetracosanoic acid; n-triaconatanoic acid; beta-sitosterol; campesterol; stigmasterol; ergostenol; stigmast-7-en-3-ol; stigmasterol-3-O-glucopyranoside; daucosterol; (2S)-1-O-heptatriacontanoyl glycerol; bracteanolide A; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2): Beta-sitosterol; Stigmasterol; |
| 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/35180
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/230433
- https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Naked_Stem%20Dewflower.html
- http://en.cnki.com.cn/Article_en/CJFDTOTAL_ZSFX201621017.htm |
| 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 | : Commelinidae |
| Order | : Commelinales |
| Family | : Commelinaceae - Spiderwort family |
| Genus | : Murdannia Royle - murdannia |
| Species | : Murdannia nudiflora (L.) Brenan - nakedstem dewflower |