Ammannia baccifera L. - monarch redstem
Ammannia baccifera L. - monarch redstem
Ammannia baccifera L. - monarch redstem
Ammannia baccifera L. - monarch redstem
Ammannia baccifera L. - monarch redstem
MH076 : Ammannia baccifera L.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 197 |
| Synonym | : | Ammannia aegyptiaca Willd. |
| Plant Common Name | : | Ammannia, acrid weed, blistering ammania, monarch redstem, tooth cup, aginbuti, ban mirich, dadmari, jungli mehendibhara jambhula, dadmari |
| Plant Family | : | Lythraceae |
| Description | : | Plant 6.5-32 cm tall, rarely suffruticose. Leaves horizontal or drooping, obovate, obovate-lanceolate or ovate-oblong, acute or obtusish, base usually attenuate, sometimes cuneate or rounded, 1-47 mm long, 0.5-9 mm broad. Cymes ± sessile, glomerular. Flowers sessile or subsessile. Hypanthium 1-1.75 mm long, 1.5-2.5 mm broad. Epicalyx obscure. Petals absent. Style c. 0-0.25 (-0.5) mm. Capsule slightly exceeding the hypanthium, 1.25-1.5(-2) mm in diameter. Fl. Per.: March-Aug. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In stream beds drying ponds,waterlogged parts of fields. |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | antiurolithic, antifertility, anthelmintic, anti-microbial, analgesic; scabies, ringworm, parasitic skin infections, common cold, typhoid,
strangury, spinal disease, gastroenteropathy and aphrodisiac, antitumor, anti-inflammatory, antiarthritic, antianalgesic, anti-pyretic, antidiuretic, Anti-cancer (Król et al., 2015) |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: hentriacontine; dotriacontanol; Lupeol; ellagic acid; quercetin; lawsone; Beta-sitosterol; Beta-sitosterol-Beta-D-glucoside; Rutin; Kaempferol; Ambacinol; Ambacinin; Betulinic acid; Dotricontanol; Hentiracontane; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (8): Lupeol; Beta-sitosterol; Quercetin; Rutin; Kaempferol; Betulinic acid; Betulin; Ellagic acid; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Rare |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- Król, S. K., Kiebus, M., Rivero Müller, A. R., and Stepulak, A. (2015). Comprehensive review on betulin as a potential anticancer agent. Biomed Res.
Int. 2015:584189. doi: 10.1155/2015/584189
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200014625 |
| 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 | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Rosidae |
| Order | : Myrtales |
| Family | : Lythraceae - Loosestrife family |
| Genus | : Ammannia L. - redstem |
| Species | : Ammannia baccifera L. - monarch redstem |