Gnaphalium luteo-album
MH121 : Gnaphalium luteo-album
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 261 |
| Synonym | : | |
| Plant Common Name | : | Bara Kamra, Jersey Cudweed, |
| Plant Family | : | Asteraceae / Compositae |
| Description | : | Annual herb, 15-45 cm long; stem simple or branched, softly woolly. Leaves sessile, 2.5-6.3 cm long, spathulate-oblong or linear oblong, woolly on both surfaces. Flowers in dense, leafless, corymbose clusters of yellow glistening heads. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Very common, often froming conspicuous patches on soft mud along stream and river margins, in drying ponds,shade of walls |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The leaves are used as an astringent and vulnerary. The tomentum is applied as counter irritant for gout. Leaves: useful in wounds and burns, also used internally to check discharge of blood serum or mucous secretions. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: luteolin glucoside; luteolin; dehydro-p-asebotin; bitter principles; phytosterin; 2',4,4'-trihydroxy-6-methoxychalcone-4'-glucoside; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (1): Luteolin; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
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| 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 | : Asteridae |
| Order | : Asterales |
| Family | : Asteraceae / Compositae - Aster family |
| Genus | : Gnaphalium |
| Species | : Gnaphalium luteo-album |