Arisaema murrayi
Arisaema murrayi
Arisaema murrayi
MH302 : Arisaema murrayi (J.Graham) Hook.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 524 |
| Synonym | : | Arum murrayi J.Graham.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | K-Khadar, Murray's Cobra Lily, Pandhra sap-kanda |
| Plant Family | : | Araceae |
| Description | : | Corm to 2.5 cm across. Leaflets 5-6, elliptic or elliptic-lanceolate, apex acute, base cuneate, membranous, 10-17 x 4-6 cm; petiole sheathing, 20-40 cm long. Peduncles as long as the petiole; spathe greenish, to 10 cm long, base tubular, to 3 x 1.5 cm; limb 6 x 5 cm, green with white streaks, reddish along margins. Spadix 6 cm long; sterile appendages as long as spathe or shortly exserted. Berry obovoid, 3 or 4-angled at apex, 6 x 5 mm. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In Chikhaldara Tarubandha, Dhaknas, Semadoh range, Koktu valley |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Tuber paste is applied externally to cure skin diseases.
Corm paste is boiled in sesame oil. This oil is used for massage in rheumatism. Corm powder with honey and ghee given to cure bleeding piles. Corm paste used to stop bleeding from fleshly cut wounds. (Bhogaonkar and Devarkar 2002) |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: - ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| 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/244475
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Murray's%20Cobra%20Lily.html |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some unique ethnomedicinal plants of Korkus of Melghat Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) "; Ethnobotany (2002); 14: 16-19 PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Subclass | : Arecidae |
| Order | : Arales |
| Family | : Araceae - Arum family |
| Genus | : Arisaema Mart. - Jack in the pulpit |
| Species | : Arisaema murrayi |