Cuscuta chinensis
Cuscuta chinensis
MH168 : Cuscuta chinensis Lam.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 338 |
| Synonym | : | Cuscuta americana Thunb. ex Engelm.;
Cuscuta aphylla Steud.;
Cuscuta capillaris Wall.;
Cuscuta carinata R. Br.;
Cuscuta exigua Herb. Par. ex Engelm.;
Cuscuta fimbriata Bunge ex Engelm.;
Cuscuta hyalina Wight;
Cuscuta maritima Makino;
Cuscuta sulcata Roxb.;
Grammica aphylla Lour.;
Grammica chinensis (Lam.) Hadac & Chrtek;
Pentake chinense Rafin.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Amarvel, Common Dodder, Makhanio, Chinese Dodder, |
| Plant Family | : | Cuscutaceae |
| Description | : | Stem slender, 0.6-0.8 mm across, pale yellow, glabrous, smooth. Flower in dense glomerules or very rarely arranged in small umbelliform inflorescence, 2-4 mm long; pedicel as long as or slightly longer than calyx; bracts narrowly triangular, keeled, entire nearly transparent. Calyx loose about the corolla, ± reaching the corolla lobes, calyx lobes triangular-ovate, thickened and fleshy towards the tops to form a carina, also more or less, thickned below the sinuses, slightly overlapping obtuse or acutish, 2-2.5 mm long. Corolla slightly longer than calyx, slightly globular, becoming more so as the fruit develops; corolla lobes triangular-ovate or oblong-ovate, spreading, acute or obtuse fleshy with or without a short carina towards the tip, ± equal or shorter than the tube, tip often inflexed. Stamens nearly half the length of corolla lobes; filament flat, pale, longer than the anther; anther ovate-cordate, yellow, scale large; reaching the base of the filaments, fringed with long or medium length processes. Ovary depressed-globose; style 2 stout or slender, thin, divergent, as long m or slightly longer than the ovary; stigma capitate. Fruit a capsule, flattened to globose, c. 3 mm across, membranous, depressed, dehiscing at the base by an uneven, transverse suture, surmounted by corolla and styles. Seeds 2-4, in each eapsule, 1.25 nun long, pale brown, with narrow oblong hilum. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | seeds used for the treatment of autoimmune diseases; improving the differentiation and proliferation of osteoblasts; preventing and treating cardiovascular diseases; Aphrodisiac; Demulcent; Diaphoretic; Hepatic; Kidney; Ophthalmic; Tonic; |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: quercetin 3-O-beta-D-galactoside-7-O-beta-D-glucoside; quercetin 3-O-beta-D-apiofuranosyl-(1-->2)-beta-D-galactoside; hyperoside; isorhamnetin; kaempferol; quercetin; d-sesamin; 9(R)-hydroxy-d-sesamin; beta-sitosterol; d-pinoresinol; daucosterol; Hyperin; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (5): Beta-sitosterol; Quercetin; Kaempferol; Isorhamnetin; Sesamin; |
| 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=200018812
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/32153?pos=
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12774382
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12587208
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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 | : Solanales |
| Family | : Cuscutaceae - Dodder family |
| Genus | : Cuscuta L. - dodder |
| Species | : Cuscuta chinensis |