Cayratia trifolia (L.) Domin - three leaf cayratia
Cayratia trifolia (L.) Domin - three leaf cayratia
Cayratia trifolia (L.) Domin - three leaf cayratia
Cayratia trifolia (L.) Domin - three leaf cayratia
Plant Category | : | Climbers |
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 87 |
Synonym | : | Causonis trifolia (L.) Raf.; Cayratia carnosa (Lam.) Gagnep.; Cayratia mekongensis C.Y.Wu; Cayratia timorensis (DC.) C.L.Li; Cayratia timorensis var. mekongensis (C.Y.Wu ex W.T.Wang) C.L.Li; Cayratia trifolia var. cinerea (Lam.) Gagnep.; Cayratia trifolia var. quinquefoliola W.T.Wang; Vitis carnosa (Lam.) Wall.; Vitis carnosa Wall. ex M.A. Lawson; Vitis trifolia L.; |
Plant Common Name | : | Bush Grape, fox-grape, three-leaved wild vine, three leaf cayratia, ambatvel, amboshi, sarbarival; Galgala |
Plant Family | : | Vitaceae |
Description | : | Native to India, Bush Grape is a vine that climbs by means of tendrils which are found opposite the leaves. The leaves are trifoliolate with petioles 2-3 cm long. The leaflets are ovate to oblong-ovate, 2-8 cm long, 1.5-5 cm wide, pointed at the tip, and coarsely toothed at the margins. The flowers are small greenish white and borne on solitary cymes in leaf axils. The fruit is fleshy, juicy, dark purple or black, nearly spherical and about 1 cm in diameter. Flowering: December. |
Plant Location in Melghat | : | Small trees ond borders of fields |
Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The root, ground with black pepper, is applied to boils. The root is also used as an astringent medicine. Paste of tuber applied as poultice to ripen boils. Roots, if eaten, result in violent vomiting. Used to vomit out any toxic or poisonous thing eaten accidentally (Bhogaonkar and Devarkar 2002). |
Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Linoleic acid; Piceid; Resveratrol; Viniferin; Ampelopsin; Hydrocyanic; Cyanidin; Kaempferol; Myricetin; Quercetin; epi-friedelanol; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (4): Quercetin; Kaempferol; Myricetin; Resveratrol; |
Plant's Current Status | : | - |
Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- Perumal PC et. al., "Isolation, structural charaterization and in silico drug like properties prediction of a natural compounds from the ethanolic extract of Cayrtia trifolia (L.)" (2015), Pharmacognosy Res.; PMID : 25598646; PMCID : 4285641
- Kumar D, et. al., "A review on chemical and biological properties of Cayratia trifolia Linn. (Vitaceae)", (2011), Parmacogn Rev; PMID: 22279376 PMCID : 3263053 |
Reference | : | ~ 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 : ~ 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 : ~ Shubhangi Pawar and D A Patil; "Observations on folkloric medicinal plants of Jalgaon district, Maharashtra"; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (2004); 3(4): 437-442 PMID : |
Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
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Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
Subclass | : Rosidae |
Order | : Rhamnales |
Family | : Vitaceae - Grape family |
Genus | : Cayratia Juss. - cayratia |
Species | : Cayratia trifolia (L.) Domin - three leaf cayratia |