| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 445 |
| Synonym | : | Avicularia indica Didr.;
Polygonum aviculare var. minutiflorum Franch.;
Polygonum changii Kitag.;
Polygonum herniarioides Spreng.; Polygonum humifusum var. mandshuricum Skvortsov;
Polygonum parviflorum Y.L. Chang & S.H. Li; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Knotweed, Small Knotweed, Machechi, Tarakmana, Gulabi Godhadi, Bethe, Chemti sag, Muthisag, Zinako Okhrad, Sarpakshee |
| Plant Family | : | Polygonaceae |
| Description | : | a prostrate, densely branched, annual herb. Stems are branched from base, branches numerous. Lance-like, elliptic, stalkless leaves are 1.0-3.0 x 0.1-0.4 cm, entire. Ochrea (a kind of sheath formed by two stipules united round a stem) are 1-2 mm long, membranous, ovate, tube-shaped. Flowers are pink, in leaf-axils, in clusters of 1-5, flower-stalks 0.5 mm long at flowering, usually enclosed by ochreae. Flowers sunken between ochrea or hardly coming out, 1-2 mm across, nearly stalkless. Tepals 5, 1.5-3 x 0.5-1.0 mm, inverted-lanceshaped - lanceshaped, unequal, outer tepals slightly longer and pointed, inner too blunt. Stamens 5, filaments long with broaden base, equal. Ovary small, trigonous with three styles and capitate stigmas. Nuts 1.0-1.75 mm long, circular to ovate, shining, black, hairless. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Root is boiled and mixed with butter locally for stimulate mammary glands; It is also considered to soothes and protects the alimentary canal. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: oxymethylanthraquinone; oleanolic acid; betulinic acid; epi-friedelanol; beta-sitosterol; quercetin; quercetin-3-arabinoside; Rutin; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (6): Beta-sitosterol; Quercetin; Rutin; Betulinic acid; Oleanolic Acid; Betulin; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Red List Category - Least Concern |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/230845
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Small%20Knotweed.html
- https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978_0_387_70638_2_1260
- https://ethnobiomed.biomedcentral.com/track/pdf/10.1186/1746_4269_9_4 |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Caryophyllidae |
| Order | : Polygonales |
| Family | : Polygonaceae - Buckwheat family |
| Genus | : Polygonum L. - knotweed |
| Species | : Polygonum plebeium R. Br. - common knotweed |
