Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH164 : Ipomoea pes-tigridis L.

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 330

Synonym : Convolvuloides palmata Moench; Convolvulus bryoniifolius Salisb.; Convolvulus capitellatus Buch.-Ham. ex Wall.; Convolvulus hepaticifolius Spreng.; Convolvulus pes-tigridis (L.) Spreng.; Ipomoea capitellata Choisy; Ipomoea hepaticifolia L.; Ipomoea pes-tigridis var. africana Hall. fil.; Ipomoea tamnifolia Burm. fil.; Ipomoea tigrina Pers.; Ipomoea tigripes Stokes; Neorthosis tigrina (Pers.) Rafin.;

Plant Common Name : Tiger Foot Morning Glory, Panchpatia, Vagh-padi, Pulichovadi, Punaikkirai, Pulichuvatu, Chikunuvvu, Anguli lota, Arti

Plant Family : Convolvulaceae

Description : The annual stems twining or prostrate or sprawling, patently pubescent with rigid trichomes. Leaves orbicular to transversely elliptic in outline, palmately divided nearly to the base, (3-) 5-7 (-9)-lobed, the segments oblong to elliptic, attenuate to acuminate on both ends, acute to obtuse apically, pubescent with appressed or patent trichomes, 3-7.5 cm long, often wider than long. Flowers involucrate-cymose. Sepals lanceolate or the inner narrow-lanceolate, 7-12 mm long, pubescent. Corolla funnel-shaped, white, 3-4 cm long. Fruits capsular, ovoid, 8 mm long. Seeds gray tomentose, 4 mm long. Fl. Per.: August to October.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : The mashed leaves are applied as a poultice on sores, boils, pimples, and tumours. The leaf powder is smoked to get relief from bronchial spasm. The entire plant is crushed and the juice extracted and take orally for treatment of or prevention of rabies if bitten by a rabid dog. A decoction of the root is considered purgative and is also administered as a treatment for haemoptysis. The seed is taken as a remedy for dropsy.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Beta-sitosterol; caffeic acid; isoquercitrin monoacetate; isoquercitrin hyperin; quercetin; Dichroside A; Dichroside B; Dichroside C; Dichroside D; friedelin; stearic acid; operculins;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (4):

Beta-sitosterol;

Quercetin;

Friedelin;

Caffeic acid;

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=5&taxon_id=200018853 - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200018853 - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/245008

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

~ Shubhangi Pawar and D A Patil; "Observations on folkloric medicinal plants of Jalgaon district, Maharashtra"; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (2004); 3(4): 437-442 PMID :

~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 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 pesti-gridis

Ipomoea pesti-gridis
Ipomoea pesti-gridis
Ipomoea pesti-gridis