Cucumis melo L. - cantaloupe
Cucumis melo L. - cantaloupe
Plant Category | : | Herbs |
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 208 |
Synonym | : | - |
Plant Common Name | : | Sherni, Seinat, Kharmuj, Musk Melon, Sweet Melon, Melon, Sinar, |
Plant Family | : | Cucurbitaceae |
Description | : | Annual or sometimes perennial (in wild form), trailing, prostrate or rarely climbing herb. Stem angular and hirsute, sometimes becoming circular and glabrous. Leaves ± reniform, 5-angled or shallowly 5-lobed, lobes obtuse, both surfaces covered with soft villous hairs; size variable, 5-15 cm long and as much broad, smaller in wild forms. Male flowers fasciculate; peduncle 5-3 cm long. Calyx tube villous, 5-8 mm long, sepals subulate. Corolla 1-2 cm long. Fruits variable in size, shape, texture and colour, generally glabrous. Seeds white, oblong and emarginate. |
Plant Location in Melghat | : | In fields stream beds,among grasses |
Medicinal Use / Activity | : | diuretic, chronic or acute eczema, fruit is cooling, fattening, tonic, laxative, aphrodisiac and diuretic; cures biliousness, insanity, ascites and allays fatigue. The seeds are lachrymatory, diuretic, cooling, tonic and nutritive; used in ophthalmia, liver and kidney troubles, bronchitis, burning of the throat, chronic fever, painful discharges and supression of urine. They are also beneficial to the enlargement of prostate gland. |
Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Fruit: Cucurbitacin B; Cucurbitacin E; Cucurbitin; ferulic acid; catteic acid; chlorogenic acid; Beta-sitosterol; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (6): Beta-sitosterol; Cucurbitacin; Cucurbitacin E; Cucurbitacin B; Chlorogenic acid; Ferulic acid; |
Plant's Current Status | : | |
Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200022613
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/279665 |
Reference | : | ~ Boeing H, Bechthold A, Bub A, Ellinger S, Haller D, Kroke A, Leschik-Bonnet E, Muller MJ, Oberritter H, Schulze M, Stehle P and Watzl B; "Critical review: vegetables and fruit in the prevention of chronic diseases"; Eur J Nutr (2012); 51(6): 637-63 PMID : 22684631 ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 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 | : Dilleniidae |
Order | : Violales |
Family | : Cucurbitaceae - Cucumber family |
Genus | : Cucumis L. - melon |
Species | : Cucumis melo L. - cantaloupe |