Aerva lanata (L.) Juss. ex Schult. - aerva
Aerva lanata (L.) Juss. ex Schult. - aerva
Aerva lanata (L.) Juss. ex Schult. - aerva
Plant Category | : | Herbs |
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 432 |
Synonym | : | Achyranthes lanata L.;
Achyranthes villosa Forssk.;
Aerva arachnoidea Gand.;
Aerva incana Suess.;
Aerva mozambicensis Gand.;
Aerva sansibarica Suess.;
Illecebrum lanatum (L.) L.; |
Plant Common Name | : | Polpala, Astana Bayda, Chaya, Pashanabheda, Akopinole, Aadaanpaaki, Pulai, Konda, Cherula etc. |
Plant Family | : | Amaranthaceae |
Description | : | Herbs, white woolly. Leaves 3-4 x 3 cm, orbicular to ovate, apex obtuse, mucronate, pubescent above, densely woolly below, membranous; petiole 1 cm. Spikes axillary, to 1 cm, densely tomentose; bracts and bracteoles 1 mm, ovate; tepals 1.5 mm, oblong, woolly mucronate; filaments basally connate, 0.5 mm, staminodes subulate; ovary 0.4 |
Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Urinal diseases, Antimicrobial, urethral problems, lithiasis, and gonorrhea; Decoction of complete plant used in kidney stone or kidney pain. |
Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Palmitic acid; Coumestrol; Beta-sitosterol; Campesterol; Chrysin; Daucosterol; Syringic acid; Vanillic acid; Feruloyltyramine; Feruloylhomovanillylamine; ervine; methylervine; ervoside; aervine; methylaervine; aervoside; ervolanine; aervolanine; kaempferol; quercetin; isorhamnetin; persinol; Persinosides A; Persinosides B; methyl grevillate; lupeol; lupeol acetate; benzoic acid; Beta-sitosterol acetate; tannic acid; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (9): Lupeol; Beta-sitosterol; Quercetin; Kaempferol; Isorhamnetin; Chrysin; Coumestrol; Palmitic acid; Tannic acid; |
Plant's Current Status | : | Common |
Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Aerva+lanata
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/32892
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Mountain%20Knot%20Grass.html
- https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3263055/ |
Reference | : | ~ Chellaiah Muthu, Muniappan Ayyanar, Nagappan Raja and Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu; "Medicinal plants used by traditional healers in Kancheepuram District of Tamil Nadu, India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2006); 2(43): 1-10 PMID : ~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 PMID : ~ Omolola Temitope Fatokun, Tosin Ejiro Wojuola, Kevwe Benefit Esievo and Oluyemisi Folashade Kunle; "Medicinal plants used in the management of Asthma: A review"; EJPMR (2016); 3(7): 82-92 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Manoj Goyal, Anil Pareek, B. P. Nagori, and D. Sasmal; "Aerva lanata: A review on phytochemistry and pharmacological aspects"; Pharmacogn Rev. (2011); 5(10): 195–198 PMID : 22279378 ~ Yuhao Zhaoa, Deepak Kumar, D.N. Prasad, Rajesh K.Singh and Yanxu Ma; "Morphoanatomic, physicochemical, and phytochemical standardization with HPTLC fingerprinting of aerial parts of Aerva lanata (Linn) Juss ex Schult"; Journal of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences (2015); 2(1): 39-44 PMID : ~ Yuhao Zhao, Deepak Kumar, D.N. Prasad, Rajesh K. Singh and Yanxu Ma; "Morphoanatomic, physicochemical, and phytochemical standardization with HPTLC fingerprinting of aerial parts of Aerva lanata(Linn) Juss ex Schult"; Journal of Traditional Chinese Medical Sciences (2015); 2: 39-44 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 | : Caryophyllidae |
Order | : Caryophyllales |
Family | : Amaranthaceae - Amaranth family |
Genus | : Aerva Forssk. - aerva |
Species | : Aerva lanata (L.) Juss. ex Schult. - aerva |