Saccharum spontaneum L. - wild sugarcane
Saccharum spontaneum L. - wild sugarcane
Plant Category | : | Grasses |
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 628 |
Synonym | : | Imperata spontanea (Linn.) P. Beauv.;
Saccharum canaliculatum Roxb.;
Saccharum propinquum Steud.;
Saccharum semidecumbens Roxb.; |
Plant Common Name | : | K- Kans, kaich or kasa, Kans grass, Kaans , Ee, Pekkarimpu, Kaki ceruku, Kamis, Kansh, Kadu kabbu, Nannana, Kansado |
Plant Family | : | Poaceae / Gramineae |
Description | : | Tall rhizomatous perennial; culms 2-4 m high or more. Leaf-blades 0.5-2 m long, up to 7.5 mm wide, gradually tapered towards the base into a narrow wing on either side of the petiole, glaucous. Panicle 25-40 (-60) cm long, the peduncle usually hairy; racemes 3-15 cm long, usually much longer than the supporting branches, the internodes and pedicels hirsute. Spikelets all alike, 2.5-5(-7) mm long, the callus bearded with silky white hairs 2-3 times as long as the spikelet; glumes equal, subcoriaceous in the lower third, glabrous on the back, often ciliate on the margins above; lower lemma lanceolateelliptic, ciliate on the margins; upper lemma very narrow, very shortly awned. Fl. & Fr. Per.: July-September. |
Plant Location in Melghat | : | In river beds |
Medicinal Use / Activity | : | treatment of mental illness and mental disturbances, gynaecological troubles, respiratory disease |
Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: 3,3,4,5,7- Penta hydroxy flavone;
3,5-Dihydroxy-4-methoxy-7-oxyglucopyronoside flavone;
3,3,4,5-Tetra hydroxy-6,8-dimethoxy flavone;
ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (1): Flavone; |
Plant's Current Status | : | - |
Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- Jeyaraman Amutha Iswarya Devi and Arumugam Kottai Muthu, "Isolation and characterization of active components derived from whole plant of Saccharum spontaneum (Linn.)" Der Pharmacia Lettre, 2015, 7 (8):197 to 203
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200026234 |
Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
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Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
Class | : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
Subclass | : Commelinidae |
Order | : Cyperales |
Family | : Poaceae / Gramineae - Grass family |
Genus | : Saccharum L. - sugarcane |
Species | : Saccharum spontaneum L. - wild sugarcane |