Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH236 : Aerva lanata (L.) Juss. ex Schult.

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
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

Aerva lanata (L.) Juss. ex Schult. - aerva
Aerva lanata (L.) Juss. ex Schult. - aerva
Aerva lanata (L.) Juss. ex Schult. - aerva