Glinus lotoides L. - lotus sweetjuice
Glinus lotoides L. - lotus sweetjuice
Glinus lotoides L. - lotus sweetjuice
Glinus lotoides L. - lotus sweetjuice
MH084 : Glinus lotoides L.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 214 |
| Synonym | : | Doosera esculenta Roxb. ex Wight & Arn.;
Glinus dictamnoides Burm.f.;
Glinus lotoides subsp. hirtus (Thunb.) M.R.Almeida.;
Glinus lotoides var. macrantha Pitot ex Täckh. & Boulos.;
Glinus lotoides var. micrantha Pitot ex Täckh. & Boulos.;
Glinus lotoides var. pedicellatus Domin.;
Glinus micranthus Boiss.;
Glinus ononoides Burm.f.;
Mollugo hirta Thunb.;
Mollugo hirta var. lotoides (L.) C.B.Clarke.;
Mollugo lotoides (L.) Arcang.;
Pharnaceum hirtum (Thunb.) Spreng.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Molluginaceae |
| Description | : | Annual procumbent herb up to 40 cm long, with stellate woolly parts. Leaves sub-verticillate, 0.6-2.0 cm long, 0.5-1.8 cm broad, orbiculate or more or less cuneate, often mucronate; petiole 2-8 mm long. Flowers in axillary clusters of 5(-6), sub-sessile; pedicel up to 1.5 mm long. Sepals 4-4.5mm long, up to 7 mm in fruit, persistent, ovate to ovate-oblong, apiculate, imbricate. Fertile stamens 12; filaments 2-3.5 mm long, unequal, persistent; anthers less than 1 mm long, bilobed. Ovary c. 2 mm long, ovoid. Stigmas 5 (4), linear, c. 1 mm long, persistent. Capsule sub-globose or oblong, c. 6 mm long, membranous, enclosed in the sepals. Seeds many, less than 1 mm long, tuberculate, strophiolate, with a curved linear appendage c. 3/4 the size of the seed. Fl. Per.: Febr.-April. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In stream and river beds,drying ponds,shallow areas of fields |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Seed used in treatment of tapeworm infestation. The plant is considered useful in abdominal disorders. It is
used as an anti-septic, an anthelmintic, as a treatment for Diarrhea and bilious attacks, and as a purgative for curing
boils, wounds and pain in general. The juice of the plant is also sometimes given to weak children for strength. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Vicenin-2; Mollugogenol B; Mollugogenol C; Mollugogenol E; Mollugogenol A; Mollugogenol D; beta-sitosterol; gamma-sitosterol; Oleanolic acid; molligocin A; Mollugogenol a-3; Mollugogenol 7; Stidmollugogenol-F; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2): Beta-sitosterol; Oleanolic Acid; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=220005631
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/229804
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Glinus+lotoides
- http://www.jocpr.com/articles/glinus_lotoides_ciruceruppadai_an_overview.pdf |
| 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 | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Caryophyllidae |
| Order | : Caryophyllales |
| Family | : Molluginaceae - Carpet-weed family |
| Genus | : Glinus L. - sweetjuice |
| Species | : Glinus lotoides L. - lotus sweetjuice |