Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH394 : Drimia indica (Roxb.) Jessop

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 61

Synonym : Albuca reflexa K.Krause & Dinter.; Aletris littoralis J.Koenig ex Steud.; Anthericum hyacinthoides Willd. ex Kunth.; Drimia zambesiaca (Baker) J.C.Manning & Goldblatt.; Erythronium hyacinthoides Royle.; Erythronium indicum Rottler ex Spreng., pro syn.; Indurgia coromandeliana (Roxb.) Speta, no basionym page.; Indurgia govindappae (A.Boraiah & Fathima) Speta.; Indurgia indica (Roxb.) Speta; Indurgia wightiana (Hook.f.) Speta; Ledebouria maculata Dalzell; Melanthium hyacinthoides Royle; Ornithogalum desertorum J.C.Manning & Goldblatt; Scilla coromandeliana Roxb.; Scilla indica Roxb.; Thuranthos coromandelianus (Roxb.) Speta; Thuranthos govindappae (A.Boraiah & Fathima) Speta; Thuranthos indicus (Roxb.) Speta; Thuranthos wightianus (Hook.f.) Speta; Thuranthos zambesiacum (Baker) Kativu; Urginea amboensis Baker; Urginea coromandeliana Hook.f., nom. illeg.; Urginea govindappae A.Boraiah & Fathima; Urginea indica (Roxb.) Kunth; Urginea salmonea Berhaut; Urginea sebirii Berhaut; Urginea wightiana Hook.f.; Urginea zambesiaca Baker;

Plant Common Name : Indian Squill, Indian Drimia, Ban piaz, Jangli piaz, Kanda, Kaadu bellulli, Naayiulli, Seeme nari eerulli, Shiru naarangadde, Kanthanga, Katulli, Kolkand, Saapkanda, Jangali Kanda, Asmantaka, Krimighna, Karuvulli, Chiruvenkayam, Adavitellagadda, Nakka Vulli

Plant Family : Asparagaceae

Description : Bulbous, scapigerous herbs; bulbs tunicated, 3.5-6 x 2.5-6.5 cm, globose-conical. Leaves radical with sheathing base, 13-25 x 0.6-2.5 cm, linear, lanceolate or lorate. Scapes 17-45 cm tall, erect, purpish brown, 4-15-flowered. Flowers 0.8-1.2 cm long, c. 1 cm across, reddish green or dull green, campanulate; pedicels 2-3.5 cm long, curved, drooping; bracts 1-2 mm, deltoid. Perianth 3+3, subequal, 0.8-1 x 0.3-0.4 cm, linear-oblong, subacute, reflexed, free to the base. Stamens 6; filaments c. 3 mm long, adnate to the base of the perianth segments; anthers 1.5-2 mm long, linear, yellow, base auricled. Ovary 3.5-5 x 2-3 mm, oblong or ovoid; style obconic to narrowly elongate; stigma trilobed. Capsules 10-20 x 5-10 mm, brownish yellow. Seeds 4-10 in each cell, 4-7 x 3-4 mm, winged. Flowering: April-May.

Plant Location in Melghat : Harisal

Medicinal Use / Activity : anti-ulcerous, antinematodal, antitumorous, anthelmintic antiarthrities and also used to cure skin diseases like warts, abscesses, boils, cardiac diseases, anti-dote to scorpion sting

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: salicylic acid; coumarins; quercitin; kaempferol; apigenin; luteolin;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (3):

Kaempferol;

Apigenin;

Luteolin;

Plant's Current Status : -

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD (1998) Addiions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants). Technical Bulletin No. VII. The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat. - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/243959 - https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Indian%20Squill.html - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=250090382 - http://jprsolutions.info/newfiles/journal_file_56bb60db49fb85.78514015.pdf

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~ Chandra Prakash Kala; "Aboriginal uses and management of ethnobotanical species in deciduous forests of Chhattisgarh state in India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2009); 5(20): 1-9 PMID :

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Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Subclass :
Order : Asparagales
Family : Asparagaceae
Genus : Drimia
Species : Drimia indica (Roxb.) Jessop

Drimia indica (Roxb.) Jessop
Drimia indica (Roxb.) Jessop
Drimia indica (Roxb.) Jessop
Drimia indica (Roxb.) Jessop