Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH138 : Vernonia cinerea (L.) Less

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 279

Synonym : Cyanthillium cinereum (L.) H.Rob.; Blumea esquirolii H.Lév. & Vaniot; Cacalia arguta Kuntze; Cacalia cinerea (L.) Kuntze; Cacalia erigerodes Kuntze; Cacalia exilis Kuntze; Cacalia kroneana Kuntze; Cacalia linifolia DC.; Cacalia rotundifolia Willd.; Cacalia vialis Kuntze; Calea cordata Lour.; Cineraria glaberrima Spreng. ex DC.; Conyza chinensis L.; Conyza chinensis Lam.; Conyza cinerea L.; Conyza heterophylla Lam.; Conyza incana DC.; Conyza prolifera Lam.; Crassocephalum flatmense Hochst. & Steud. ex DC.; Cyanopis decurrens Zoll. & Mor.; Cyanthillium cinereum var. ovatum Isawumi; Cyanthillium cinereum var. viale (DC.) Isawumi; Eupatorium arboreum Reinw. ex de Vriese; Eupatorium myosotifolium Jacq.; Eupatorium sinuatum Lour. [Illegitimate]; Pteronia tomentosa Lour.; Seneciodes cinerea (L.); Seneciodes cinereum (L.) Kuntze ex Kuntze; Serratula cinerea (L.) Roxb.; Vernonia abbreviata DC.; Vernonia arguta Baker; Vernonia betonicaefolia Baker; Vernonia exilis Miq.; Vernonia fasciculata Blume; Vernonia kroneana Miq.; Vernonia vialis DC.;(=) Blumea chinensis (L.) DC.;

Plant Common Name : Sahdevi, Little ironweed, Purple feabane • Hindi: Sahadevi, Sadodi,Puvamkuruntal, Sahadevi, Kuksim

Plant Family : Asteraceae

Description : Annuals or perennial herbs, stem ribbed, smooth or puberulus. Leaves variable, 2-8 x 1-3 cm, ovate, acute at both ends, thinly hairy below; petiole 1-2 cm long, slender. Heads 5 x 3 mm, in terminal corymbose cymes, peduncled; outer bracts minute, inner oblong, acute, cuspidate, hairy. Flowers 5-10, similar; corolla 3 mm long, glabrous. Achenes 1.5 mm long, hairy; outer pappus 1 mm long, setaceous, inner 3 mm long.

Plant Location in Melghat : In open grasslands and river beds

Medicinal Use / Activity : Eye problems, The seeds yield a fatty oil and are used as an anthelmintic and alexipharmic; they are said to be quite effective against roundworms and threadworms. They are also given for coughs, flatulence, intestinal colic and dysuria and for leucoderma, psoriasis and other chronic skin-diseases. The seeds are made into a paste with lime juice and used for destroying pediculi.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: (+)-lirioresinol B; stigmasterol; stigmasterol-3-O-beta-D-glucoside; 4-sulfo-benzocyclobutene; Lupeol; Beta-sitosterol; Stigmasterol;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (3):

Lupeol;

Beta-sitosterol;

Stigmasterol;

Plant's Current Status : Common

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/262967 - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Little%20Ironweed.html - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19086634 - http://japsonline.com/admin/php/uploads/507_pdf.pdf

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 :
Order : Asterales
Family : Asteraceae
Genus : Vernonia
Species : Vernonia cineria L.

Vernonia cineria L.
Vernonia cineria L.
Vernonia cineria L.
Vernonia cineria L.