Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH029 : Biophytum sensitivum (L.) DC.

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 66

Synonym : Biophytum cumingii Klotzsch; Oxalis cumingiana Turcz.; Oxalis sensitiva L.; Toddavaddia sensitiva (L.) Kuntze;

Plant Common Name : Lajalu, K-Saram Zara,

Plant Family : Oxalidaceae

Description : These are annuals which grow upto 25 cm in height. The base is woody. Stem is slender to robust, simple and at the apex is covered by dense thick hair. There are upto 13 leaves, the rachis is slender, moderately covered by dense thick hair, the leaflets are 6-14 pairs, the leaflet blades are obovate-oblong or oblong, 3–15 × 2–7 mm, base is almost symmetric, usually smooth and sometimes covered by trichomes. There are several flowers on the umbels, the peduncle is 2-7 cm and is subequal to the length of hte leaf. There are several bracts which are lanceolate and arranged densely at the apex of the peduncle, with the cluster measure ~3mm. The pedicel is 3mm in the fruit but ~1mm at the anthesis. Sepals are with glandular septate trichomes and 5-6mm in size. The petals are longer than sepals and yellow in color. The capsule is covered with hairs, 4–5 x 3–4mm in size, ellipsoid-obovoid in shape. Flowering and fruiting from July-December.

Plant Location in Melghat : Open grasslands

Medicinal Use / Activity : Heat problems, anti-bacterial, anti-inflammatory, anti-oxidant, antitumor, radioprotective, chemoprotective, antimetastatic, antiangiogenetic, wound-healing, immunomodulatory, anti-diabetic, and cardioprotective, Anti-cancer (Preethi and Padma, 2016)

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Biflavones: Amentoflavone; Cupressuflavone; Luteolin 7- methyl ether; 3-methoxyluteolin 7-O-glucoside; Isoorientin; 4-Caffeoylquinic acid; 5-Caffeoylquinic acid;3,8-biapigenin; Proanthocyanidins;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (5):

Amentoflavone;

Apigenin;

Flavone;

Luteolin;

Quinic acid;

Plant's Current Status : Common

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - Sakthivel, KM; Guruvayoorappan, C (2012). "Biophytum sensitivum: Ancient medicine, modern targets". J Adv Pharm Technol Res. 3: 83–91. PMC 3401679?Freely accessible. PMID 22837955. doi:10.4103/2231 4040.97279. - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/228939?pos=

Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ Sonika Jain, Jaya Dwivedi, Pankaj Kumar Jain, Swaha Satpathy and Arjun Patra; "Medicinal Plants for Treatment of Cancer: A Brief Review"; Pharmacogn. J. (2016); 8(2): 87-102 PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida
Subclass :
Order : Oxalidales
Family : Oxalidaceae - Wood-Sorrel family
Genus : Biophytum
Species : Biophytum sensitivum (L.) DC.

Biophytum sensitivum (L.) DC.