| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 439 |
| Synonym | : | Achyranthes alternifolia L.; Achyranthes alternifolia Russell ex Wall. [Invalid]; Achyranthes ciliata Lam.; Achyranthes digera Poir.; Achyranthes muricata L.; Achyranthes polygonoides Retz.; Amaranthus arvensis (Forssk.) K.Krause; Celosia muricata Spreng.; Chamissoa arabica Spreng.; Chamissoa ciliata Spreng.; Chamissoa commutata Spreng.; Chamissoa muricata Spreng.; Cladostachys alternifolia Sweet; Cladostachys arborescens D.Dietr.; Cladostachys muricata Moq.; Desmochaeta alternifolia DC.; Desmochaeta ciliata Schult.; Desmochaeta muricata DC.; Digera alternifolia (L.) Asch.; Digera arvensis Forssk.; Digera ciliata (Lam.) Mart.; Digera forsskaolii Blume; Digera frutescens Juss. ex Steud.; Eclotoripa annua Raf.; Eclotoripa fruticosa Raf.; Steiremis ciliata Raf. (Unresolved); Uretia alternifolia Raf.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Kunjar, Tanduljira, False Amaranth, kanjaro, chanchali, lahsuva, latmahuria, gorajepalle, getan, kunjar, leswa, tandala, toyya-k-kirai, chenchalicettu |
| Plant Family | : | Amaranthaceae |
| Description | : | Annual herb, (15-) 20-50 (-70) cm, simple or with ascending branches from near the base; stem and branches glabrous or very sparingly pilose, with pale ridges. Leaf-blade narrowly linear to broadly ovate or rarely subrotund, (12-) 20-60 (-90) x (2-) 6-30 (-50) mm, glabrous or the petiole and principal veins of the lower surface of the leaf spreading-hairy, acute or acuminate at the apex, longly or (in broader-leaved forms) rapidly narrowed to the base; petiole slender, in the lower leaves up to c. 5 cm, shortening in the upper leaves. Flowers glabrous, white tinged with pink to carmine or red, usually becoming greenish-white in fruit, in long and slender or shorter and denser axillary racemes, long-pedunculate, up to c. 30 cm long, laxer below; peduncles slender, the lower up to c. 14 cm in length, both they and the inflorescence axis glabrous or sparingly spreading-hairy; bracts persistent, deltoid-lanceolate, acuminate, 1-2.75 mm, glabrous, membranous with a green or brownish percurrent midrib, each subtending a very shortly pedunculate partial inflorescence of 3 flowers. Central flower fertile, the 2 membranous, navicular outer perianth segments c. 3-4.5 mm long, oval or oblong, 7-12-nerved (in Asia), acute; the 2-3 inner segments slightly shorter, more delicate, blunt or erose, 1-3-nerved, hyaline, with a darker central vitta; stamens sub-equalling or shorter than the style; style c. 1.5-4 mm, the 2 stigmas finally recurved. Lateral flowers appressed, 1-bracteolate, bracteoles similar in form to the bract, these flowers much reduced and increasingly so in the upper part of the spike (sometimes absent there), modified into accrescent, antler-shaped scales, these scales with the lateral lobes narrow (in Asia) to broad and wing-like. Fruit subglobose, slightly compressed, 2-2.5 mm, bluntly keeled along each side, surmounted by a thick rim or a corona of short, firm processes furnished throughout with verrucae or ridges, style persistent. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | used internally against digestive system disorders; seeds and flowers are used to treat urinary disorders. plant have been used as crude drug for the treatment of kidney stone and urinary tract disorders. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: alpha and beta-spinasterol; Coumarin; Rutin; Hyperoside; Anthraquinone; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2): Rutin; Spinasterol; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://uses.plantnet_project.org/en/Digera_muricata_(PROTA)
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/False%20Amaranth.html
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=250064265
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/229563
- http://globalresearchonline.net/journalcontents/v20_1/19.pdf |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); 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 | : Digera Forssk. - false amaranth |
| Species | : Digera muricata (L.) Mart. - false amaranth |
