Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MC005 : Cayratia trifolia (L.) Domin.

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
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

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