Ipomoea sepiaria Koenig ex Roxb.
Ipomoea sepiaria Koenig ex Roxb.
Ipomoea sepiaria Koenig ex Roxb.
Ipomoea sepiaria Koenig ex Roxb.
Ipomoea sepiaria Koenig ex Roxb.
Ipomoea sepiaria Koenig ex Roxb.
MC028 : Ipomoea sepiaria Koenig ex Roxb.
| Plant Category | : | Climbers |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 332 |
| Synonym | : | Ipomoea sagittifolia Burm. f.; (=) Convolvulus marginatus Desr.; (=) Ipomoea marginata (Desr.) Manitz; (=) Ipomoea maxima auct.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | hedge bind-weed, purple heart glory, ban kalmi, amti-vel, asrabinducchada, lakshamana,manjika,nagaputri, nagini, putrada,putrajanani, putrakanda, tulini |
| Plant Family | : | Convolvulaceae |
| Description | : | A twinner with pilose stem. Leaves 2.5-7.5 cm long, ovate-deltoid to broadly ovate, acuminate, cordate, sometimes sagitte at the base. Flowers 2 or more in pedunculate subumbellate cymes; corolla 3-3.8 cm long, salver-shaped, light purplish or white, tinged with rose-purple. Capsule 8 mm long, smooth, spherical. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Tubers are cooling, alterative, uterine tonic and aphrodisiac; cures ulcers. Juice of the plant is deobstruent and diuretic and anti-dote to arsenic (Yusuf et al. 2009). EtOH(50%) extract of aerial parts is diuretic and hypotensive (Asolkar et al., 1992). |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Beta-sitosterol; paniculatin; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (1): Beta-sitosterol; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve |
| 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 | : Asteridae |
| Order | : Solanales |
| Family | : Convolvulaceae - Morning-glory family |
| Genus | : Ipomoea L. - morning-glory |
| Species | : Ipomoea sepiaria Koenig ex Roxb. |