Amorphophallus commutatus
Amorphophallus commutatus
Amorphophallus commutatus
Amorphophallus commutatus
Amorphophallus commutatus
MH398 : Amorphophallus commutatus (Schott) Engl.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 65 |
| Synonym | : | Amorphophallus commutatus var. anmodensis Sivad. & Jaleel.;
Amorphophallus commutatus var. anshiensis Punekar, Lakshmin. & Sivad.;
Amorphophallus commutatus var. wayanadensis Sivad. & Jaleel.;
Conophallus commutatus Schott.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Dragon Stalk Yam, kattucena, mogari kanda, shevala |
| Plant Family | : | Araceae |
| Description | : | Herbs with corms. Leaves tripartitely compound, to 50 m long, leaflets elliptic, caudate-acuminate, base acute, glabrous, membranous; petiole to 50 cm long, terete; peduncle 8-10 cm long and 0.7-0.9 cm diameter, smooth, pale yellowish in colour, covered by about 4 cataphylls, each cataphyll 2.5-15 cm long and 1.5-5.0 cm broad. Spathe ovate-acute, 17-18 cm long and 4-5 cm broad, differentiated into a basal tube and an upper limb separated by a slight constriction between the two; basal tube slightly compressed, obovoid, ca. 2.5-3 cm long; limb expanded, erect, pale yellowish outside and pale brownish towards the margins; tube slightly purplish, verrucose, with unicellular hairs within. Spadix 23-25 cm long, sessile or stipitate to ca. 3-5 mm; female zone ca. 1.5 cm long, male zone cylindrical, ca. 3 cm long, appendix elongate, narrowly conical with rounded apex, 18-20 cm long, 1.3-1.5 cm diameter at base and tapering towards the tip, pale-yellowish brown to dark purplish brown in colour. Female flowers ca. 2.5 mm long, ovary sub-globose, ca. 1.5 mm high, 2 mm diameter, pale greenish, unilocular with a basal anatropous ovule; style very short; stigma ca. 1.5 mm diameter, narrower than the ovary, inconspicuously 3-lobed. Male flowers pale yellowish, densely arranged, sessile; each ca. 1.25 mm high and 1.25 mm broad, inconspicuously 2-lobed; dehiscence by apical slit-like pores. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Chikhaldara |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Tuber paste is applied externally to cure scabies |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: - ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Endemic |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD (1998) Addiions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants). Technical Bulletin No. VII. The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat.
-https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/244526
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Dragon%20Stalk%20Yam.html |
| Reference | : | ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Additions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants)"; The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat (1998); Technical Bulletin No. VII PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Subclass | : Arecidae |
| Order | : Arales |
| Family | : Araceae - Arum family |
| Genus | : Amorphophallus Blume ex Decne. - amorphophallus |
| Species | : Amorphophallus commutatus |