Pimpinella candolleana Wight & Arn.
Pimpinella candolleana Wight & Arn.
Pimpinella candolleana Wight & Arn.
Pimpinella candolleana Wight & Arn.
MH089 : Pimpinella candolleana Wight & Arn.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 219 |
| Synonym | : | Carum candolleanum (Wight & Arn.) Franch.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Apiaceae / Umbelliferae |
| Description | : | Plants perennial, 10–100 cm, pubescent throughout. Root cylindrical or fusiform, 5–15 × 0.5–1 cm. Stems 1–2, little-branched. Basal petioles 2–20 cm; bade simple (rarely ternate), cordate-ovate, (1–)3–8 × (1–)2–7 cm, margins coarsely serrate. Cauline leaves few, ternate, 3-lobed or 1-pinnate, rarely entire. Umbels 3–6 cm across; bracts absent or 1–7, linear, 3–8 mm; rays (6–)10–25, 1.5–4 cm, unequal, pubescent or scabrous; bracteoles 1–6, linear, 2.5–4 mm, ca. equal to or longer than pedicels, glabrous; umbellules 9–12 mm across, 10–20-flowered, usually central flowers subsessile and sterile; pedicels 0.5–3.5 mm. Calyx teeth obsolete. Petals white or purplish, obcordate, apex with incurved lobule. Stylopodium conic; styles ca. 2–3 × stylopodium. Fruit cordate-ovoid, ca. 1.5–2 × 1–1.5 mm, surface granulate with dense, short papillae; vittae 2–3 in each furrow, 2–4 on commissure. Seed face plane. Fl. Apr–Aug, fr. Aug–Oct. 2n = 18*. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In chikhaldara,Dhakna,Tarubandha ranges & Koktu valley among tall grasses of forest undergrowth |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: alpha-zingiberene; pregeijerene; beta-bisabolene; beta-sesquiphellandrene; trans-beta-farnesene; ar-curcumene; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2): Curcumene; Farnesene; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/249288
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200015775
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17992994 |
| 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 | : Rosidae |
| Order | : Apiales |
| Family | : Apiaceae / Umbelliferae - Carrot family |
| Genus | : Pimpinella |
| Species | : Pimpinella candolleana Wight & Arn. |