Aerva javanica (Burm. f.) Juss. ex. Schult.
MH346 : Aerva javanica (Burm. f.) Juss. ex Schult.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | - |
| Synonym | : | Achyranthes javanica (Burm. f.) Pers.;
Aerva persica (Burm. f.) Merrill;
Aerva tomentosa Forssk.;
Aerva wallichii Moq.;
Celosia lanata L.;
Illecebrum javanicum (Burm. f.) Murr.;
Iresine javanica Burm. f.;
Iresine persica Burm. f.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Kapok Bush, Java aerva, pillow bush, snow bush • Hindi: Buee |
| Plant Family | : | Amaranthaceae |
| Description | : | Perennial herb, frequently woody and suffruticose or growing in erect clumps, 0.3-1.5 m, branched from about the base with simple stems or the stems with long, ascending, sometimes intricate branches. Stem and branches terete, striate, ± densely whitish- or yellowish-tomentose or pannose, when dense the indumentum often appearing tufted. Leaves alternate, very variable in size and form, from narrowly linear to suborbicular, ±densely whitish- or yellowish tomentose but usually more thinly so and greener on the upper surface, margins plane or more or less involute (when strongly so the leaves frequently ± falcate-recurved), sessile or with a short and indistinct petiole or the latter rarely to c. 2 cm in robust plants. Flowers dioecious. Spikes sessile, cylindrical, dense and stout (up to c. 10 x 1 cm.), to slender and interrupted with lateral globose clusters of flowers and with some spikes apparently pedunculate by branch reduction; male plants always with more slender spikes (but plants with slender spikes may not be male) ; upper part of stem and branches leafless, the upper spikes thus forming terminal panicles; bracts 0.75-2.25 mm, broadly deltoid-ovate, hyaline, acute or obtuse with the obscure midrib ceasing below the apex, densely lanate throughout or only about the base or apex, persistent; bracteoles similar, also persistent. Female flowers with outer 2 tepals 2-3 mm, oblong-obovate to obovate-spathulate, lanate, acute to obtuse or apiculate at the tip, the yellowish midrib ceasing well below the apex; inner 3 slightly shorter, elliptic-oblong, ± densely lanate, acute, with a narrow green vitta along the midrib, which extends for about two-thirds the length of each tepal; style slender, distinct, with the two filiform, flexuose stigmas at least equalling it in length; filaments reduced, anthers absent. Male flowers smaller, the outer tepals 1.5-2.25 mm, ovate; filaments delicate, the anthers about equalling the perianth; ovary small, style very short, stigma rudimentary. Capsule 1-1. 5 mm, rotund, compressed. Seed 0.9-1.25 mm, round, slightly compressed, brown or black, shining and smooth or very faintly reticulate. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Harisal |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Seeds are believed to cure headaches. A gargle is made from the plant to try to treat toothache. Uses in Skin Diseases. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Chrysoeriol; isorhamnetein 3-O-rutinoside; kaempferol-3-robinoside; campesterol; beta-sitosterol; triterpenoid; alpha-and beta-amyrin; kaempferol; palmitic acid; stearic acid; linoleic acid; myristic acid; oleic acid; palmitoleic acid; aervanone; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (5): Beta-sitosterol; Rutin; Kaempferol; Chrysoeriol; Palmitic acid; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Londhe, A.N., Watve, A.V. & Ansari, M.Y. 2002. “Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve”. J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. 26: 385 to 395
- https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/aerva_javanica.htm
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/32885
- https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Kapok%20Bush.html
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=250064274
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/288383407_Pharmacognostical |
| Reference | : | ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 PMID : ~ Behailu Bizuayehu and Belachew Garedew; "A review on the ethnobotanical study of medicinal plants used for the treatment of gonorrhea disease in Ethiopia"; Indian Journal of Natural Products and Resources (2018); 9(3): 183-193 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 | : Amaranthaceae - Amaranth family |
| Genus | : Aerva Forssk. - aerva |
| Species | : Aerva javanica (Burm. f.) Juss. ex. Schult. |