Ipomoea muricata
Ipomoea muricata
Ipomoea muricata
Ipomoea muricata
MH163 : Ipomoea muricata (Linn.) Jacq.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 326 |
| Synonym | : | Ipomoea turbinata Lag.;
Calonyction longiflorum Hassk.;
Calonyction muricatum (L.) G. Don;
Calonyction speciosum var. muricatum (L.) Choisy;
Convolvulus colubrinus Blanco;
Convolvulus muricatus L.;
Convolvulus smilacifolius Salisb.;
Diatrema muricata (L.) Rafin.;
Ipomoea bona-nox var. purpurascens Ker-Gawl.;
Ipomoea calderonii Standl.;
Ipomoea petiolaris (Kunth) G. Don;
Ipomoea spinulosa Brandegee.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Bhingari, barik Bhovari, Purple Moonflower, |
| Plant Family | : | Convolvulaceae |
| Description | : | Climbers, annual, the herbaceous stems twining, glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate to orbicular, 7-18 cm long, cordate basally, acuminate apically with an acute to obtuse acumen. Flowers solitary to few-flowered cymes, the peduncles usually muricate. Sepals ovate to oblong, the outer 6-7 mm long with a fleshy-caudate awn, 4-6 mm long, the inner sepals 7-8 mm long, the awn shorter. Corolla nocturnal, lavender to purplish, 5-7.5 cm long, the tube 3-6 cm long, the limb funnel-shaped to salverform. Fruit capsular, ovoid, 1.8-2 cm long. Seeds ovoid, black, glabrous.
Fl. Per.: September |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Purgative, febrifuge. Seeds—cardiac depressant, spasmolytic, hypotensive, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal. Plant juice destroys bedbugs. hypotensive, psychotropic, analgesic, and uterus and intestine-stimulating properties. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Muricatin; Calonyctin B; Calonyctin C; Calonyctin D; Calonyctin E; Calonyctin F; Calonyctin G; Calonyctin H; Calonyctin I; Calonyctin J; muricatic acid; Lysergol; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://agris.fao.org/agris-search/search.do?recordID=PH2000101303
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=210000746
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29448078 |
| 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 | : Asteridae |
| Order | : Solanales |
| Family | : Convolvulaceae - Morning-glory family |
| Genus | : Ipomoea L. - morning-glory |
| Species | : Ipomoea muricata |