Sonchus oleraceus L. common sowthistle
Sonchus oleraceus L. common sowthistle
Sonchus oleraceus L. common sowthistle
MH132 : Sonchus oleraceus L.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 273 |
| Synonym | : | Sonchus australis Hort. ex Trev.;
Sonchus oleraceus Wall.;
Sonchus oleraceus f. asper (L.);
Sonchus oleraceus f. runcinatus Fiori;
Sonchus oleraceus subsp. asper(L.)Ehrh.;
Sonchus oleraceus var. asper L.;
Sonchus oleraceus var. laevis L.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Milk weed, sowthistle, Sow thistle, Smooth Sow Thistle, Annual Sow Thistle, Hare's Colwort, Hare's Thistle, Milky Tassel, Swinies, Hare's-lettuce, Milk thistle, Dudhi, Khomthokpi; |
| Plant Family | : | Asteraceae / Compositae |
| Description | : | Annuals, to 90 cm high; stems glandular hairy. Leaves to 15 x 6 cm, runcinate-pinnatifid, with a wide hastate terminal lobe, auricled and amplexicaule at base; lobes spinulose-serrate. Heads 15 x 8 mm, few, in panicled cymes; bracts 10 x 1.5 mm, 3-seriate, oblong, obtuse. Female corolla 12 mm long, limb yellow, 5-lobed; lobes obtuse. Achenes 3 x 1 mm, narrowed to the base, truncate at apex, muriculate; pappus 10 mm long, white, cottony. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In forest nurseries, fields etc. |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | It is used medicinally to treat Diarrhea, menstrual problems, fever, inflammation and warts. As abortifacient as a cathartic, a sedative, cancer treatment, a vermisides aid for toothache. Plant is useful in liver diseases. Leaves and roots are used in indegestion as febrifuge; stem is used as sedative, tonic; root extract is used in ointments for ulcers and wounds. Gum produced by evaporating latex is used for ascites and hydrothorax. enteritis, Diarrhea, pneumonia, hepatitis, appendicitis, chronic bronchopneumonia,
icterus, throat swelling, haematemesis and uraemia |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: apigenin; daidzein; kaempferol; luteolin; myricetin; quercetin; daidzin; genistin; hesperidin; hyperoside; kaempferol-7-O-glucoside; naringin; rutin; Apigetrin; Astragalin; Isoquercitrin; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (10): Quercetin; Rutin; Kaempferol; Apigenin; Daidzein; Hesperidin; Luteolin; Myricetin; Naringin; Genistin; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Not Common |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Sow%20Thistle.html
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/231182
- http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0102 33062015000400553
-https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2849021/ |
| 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 : |
| 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 | : Sonchus L. sowthistle |
| Species | : Sonchus oleraceus L. common sowthistle |