Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH288 : Chlorophytum tuberosum (Roxb.) Baker

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 508

Synonym : Acrospira lilioides A.Chev.; Anthericum kilimandscharicum Poelln.; Anthericum niveum (Poir.) Spreng.; Anthericum ornithogaloides Hochst. ex A.Rich.; Anthericum tuberosum Roxb.; Chlorophytum anthericoideum Dalzell.; Chlorophytum kulsii Cufod.; Chlorophytum niveum (Poir.) M.R.Almeida.; Chlorophytum russii Chiov.; Liliago nivea (Poir.) C.Presl.; Liliago tuberosa (Roxb.) C.Presl.; Phalangium niveum Poir.; Phalangium ornithogaloides (Hochst. ex A.Rich.) Schweinf.; Phalangium tuberosum (Roxb.) Kunth.;

Plant Common Name : Turshi, Edible Chlorophytum, Safed-musli, Dravanti, Veluttanilappana, Kuli, Musli, Tiravanticham, Kuchhela, Sarala pagada

Plant Family : Liliaceae

Description : Leaves 15-25 x 1-1.5 cm, ensiform, sheathing at base. Scape 25-35 cm; flowers towards tip of spike, racemose. Bracts 1-3 cm long, lanceolate. Flowers white, 2-2.5 cm across. Ovule 4 or more in each cell; stigma simple. Capsule 1-1.5 x 0.8-1 cm, oblong, triquetrous. Seeds 0.3-0.35 cm long, irregularly pitted.

Plant Location in Melghat : Chikhaldara, Tarubandha , Dhakna, Harisal and Akot ranges

Medicinal Use / Activity : Sexual Problems, Tonic; Safed musali is used as an aphrodisiac and galactogogue as well as for its nutritive, health promoting properties and immunoenhancing, Hepatoprotective and anti-oxidants activities. The tubers are also used in fever, Leucorrhoea and also as an aphrodisiac.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: -

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0):

Plant's Current Status : Rare, Endemic

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/229169 - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Edible%20Chlorophytum.html - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3059447/

Reference : ~ Sharada Laxman Deore, Neha Brijmohan Jajoo, Kailaspati Prabhakar Chittam and Tushar Atmaram Deshmukh; "Comparative Pharmacognostic, Phytochemical and Biological evaluation between five Chlorophytum species"; Pharmacognosy Journal (2015); 7(5): 317-325 PMID :

~ Chandra Prakash Kala; "Aboriginal uses and management of ethnobotanical species in deciduous forests of Chhattisgarh state in India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2009); 5(20): 1-9 PMID :

~ 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 : Liliidae
Order : Liliales
Family : Liliaceae - Lily family
Genus : Chlorophytum ker Gawl. - chlorophytum
Species : Chlorophytum tuberosum Roxb.

Chlorophytum tuberosum Roxb.