Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH105 : Blumea membranacea DC.

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 245

Synonym : Blumea balansae Gagnep.; Blumea paucifolia DC.;

Plant Common Name :

Plant Family : Asteraceae / Compositae

Description : Annuals, 7-100 cm. Stems usually simple, glandular-pubescent, sometimes with few longer eglandular hairs above. Leaves simple; petiole to 3 cm; blade obovate or lyrate, often oblanceolate in outline, with 1 or 2(or 3) pairs of lateral lobes, 2-13 × 1-5 cm, thinly herbaceous, pubescent on both surfaces, sometimes stipitate glandular adaxially at least in synflorescence, base narrowly attenuate, usually petiolate, margin denticulate (to shallowly dentate), apex acute or obtuse. Capitula rather few in narrow terminal panicles. Involucre ca. 4 mm in diam.; phyllaries purplish tinged, 6-seriate, 2-6.5 mm, glandular-pubescent, sometimes with few eglandular hairs, outermost lanceolate, inner ones linear. Receptacle glabrous. Corollas yellow; marginal florets 3.5-4.5 mm; central florets 4.5-5.5 mm, lobes with glandular hairs and sometimes very reduced eglandular ones. Pappus white. Fl. Feb-Jun.

Plant Location in Melghat : Fairly frequent throughout in forest undergrowth and shady moist habitats

Medicinal Use / Activity : The plant juice is used to relieve body pain. Leaf juice given in pneumonia. (Bhogaonkar and Devarkar 2002)

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: -

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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=2&taxon_id=200023560

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

~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some unique ethnomedicinal plants of Korkus of Melghat Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) "; Ethnobotany (2002); 14: 16-19 PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass : Asteridae
Order : Asterales
Family : Asteraceae / Compositae - Aster family
Genus : Blumea DC. - false family
Species : Blumea membranacea

Blumea membranacea