Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH426 : Crinum latifolium L.

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : -

Synonym : Amaryllis insignis Ker Gawl.; Amaryllis littoralis Salisb., nom. superfl.; Amaryllis moluccana Ker Gawl.; Crinum cochinchinense M.Roem.; Crinum esquirolii H.Lév.; Crinum insigne (Ker Gawl.) Sweet; Crinum jemenicum Dammann; Crinum jemense Dammann, orth. var.; Crinum latifolium var. crilae Tram & Khánh, nom. inval. without type.; Crinum longistylum Herb. ex Steud., pro syn.; Crinum moluccanum Roxb. ex Ker Gawl.; Crinum ornatum var. careyanum (Herb.) Herb.; Crinum ornatum var. insigne (Ker Gawl.) Herb.; Crinum ornatum var. latifolium (L.) Herb., nom. superfl.; Crinum ornatum var. longistylum Herb.; Crinum ornatum var. moluccanum (Roxb. ex Ker Gawl.) Herb.; Crinum ornatum var. speciosum Herb.; Crinum speciosum Herb., nom. illeg.;

Plant Common Name : Milk and Wine Lily, pink-striped trumpet lily, wide-leaved pink-striped trumpet lily, wide-leaved crinum lily crinum lily • Bengali: sukhadarshana • Konkani: gol kando • Malayalam: sjovanna-pol sjovanna-pola-talia-tali • Marathi: gadabi kanda, gulabi karnaphul • Sanskrit: cakrangi, madhuparnika, sudarsana, vrsakarni • Tamil: visa-munkil

Plant Family : Amaryllidaceae

Description : Herbs, with white fragnant flowers in umbels.

Plant Location in Melghat : Chikhali, Tarubanda

Medicinal Use / Activity : The bulbs are extremely acrid and only used externally. In India, when roasted, they are used as a rubefacient in the treatment of rheumatism, or are crushed on piles and abscesses to cause suppuration. The juice of the leaves is used in the treatment of earache. traditionally used to treat rheumatism, fistula, tumors, earaches, rubefacient, tubercle and whitlow. anti-viral; anti-tumor;

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: pratorimine; pratosine; hippadine; pratorinine; ambelline; lycorine;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (1):

Lycorine;

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 - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Milk%20and%20Wine%20Lily.html - http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Crinum+latifolium - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/244446 - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/229206067_Alkaloids - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3134856/

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 :

~ RLS Sikarwar, Bharat Pathak & Anil Jaiswal; "Some unique ethnomedicinal perceptions of tribal communities of Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh"; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (2008); 7(4): 613-617 PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Subclass : Liliidae
Order : Asparagales
Family : Amaryllidaceae - Nargis family
Genus : Crinum L. - swamplily
Species : Crinum latifolium L.

Crinum latifolium L.
Crinum latifolium L.
Crinum latifolium L.
Crinum latifolium L.