Alternanthera pungens Kunth - khakiweed
Alternanthera pungens Kunth - khakiweed
Alternanthera pungens Kunth - khakiweed
Alternanthera pungens Kunth - khakiweed
Plant Category | : | Herbs |
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 436 |
Synonym | : | Achyranthes leiantha (Seub.) Standl.; Achyranthes repens L.; Alternanthera achyrantha (L.) R. Br. ex Sweet; Alternanthera repens (L.) Link, non J.F. Gmel.; Achyranthes leiantha (Seub.) Standl.; ....; Alternanthera achyrantha R.Br. ex Sweet; ....; Bucholzia spinescens Gillies ex Moq.; Celosia echinata Humb. & Bonpl. ex Schult.; Desmochaeta sordida Bunbury; Guilleminea procumbens Rojas Acosta; Illecebrum pungens (Kunth) Spreng.; Pityranthus crassifolius Mart.; Pupalia sordida Moq.; Telanthera pungens (Kunth) Moq. |
Plant Common Name | : | Khaki weed; Creeping Chaff weed; |
Plant Family | : | Amaranthaceae |
Description | : | Prostrate herbs. Leaves to 1.5 x 1 cm, deltoid to obovate, apex obtuse, base narrowed, short, glabrous. Spikes to 10 x 6 mm, 2-3 together, axillary, sessile; bracts and bracteoles equal, 5 mm long, scarious, aristate. Flowers densely packed; tepals 5, outer three larger, 5 mm long, lanceolate, aristate, one oblong, obtuse, inner smaller, boat shaped, keeled, aristate, all 3-ribbed, barbed at base; stamens 5, filaments united at base; ovary obovoid, stigma capitate. |
Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The plant is diuretic. A decoction is used internally to treat gonorrhea. |
Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: alpha and Beta-spinasterols; azulene; alpha-borneol; bornylacetate; camphene; camphore; 1,8-cineol; alpha-cucumene; p-cymene; elemol acetate; eudesmol; genaniol; limonene; linalool; myrcene; Beta-ocimene; alpha-pinene; Beta-pinene; alpha-terpineol; alpha-terpinolene and alpha-thujone in flower oil ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (13): Terpinolene; Alpha-terpineol; Borneol; Limonene; Camphor; Alpha-pinene; P-cymene; Beta-pinene; Camphene; Ocimene; Myrcene; Linalool; Spinasterol; |
Plant's Current Status | : | - |
Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/228704
- http://www.bsienvis.nic.in/Database/bsi_3946.aspx |
Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ SS Semenya, MJ Potgieter, and LJC Erasmus; "Exotic and indigenous problem plants species used, by the Bapedi, to treat sexually transmitted infections in Limpopo Province, South Africa"; Afr Health Sci. (2013); 13(2): 320-326 PMID : 24235930 |
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 | : Alternanthera Forssk. - joyweed |
Species | : Alternanthera pungens Kunth - khakiweed |