Sauromatum guttatum (Wall.) Schott.
MH399 : Sauromatum guttatum (Wall.) Schott.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 66 |
| Synonym | : | Typhonium venosum (Dryand. ex Aiton) Hett. & P.C. Boyce;
Arum venosum Dryand. ex. Aiton;
Sauromatum venosum (Dryand. ex Aiton) Kunth.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | - |
| Plant Family | : | Araceae |
| Description | : | Plants monoecious. Corm up to 13 cm broad, globose-depressed. Petiole mottled black, 30-45 cm long. Leaf pedate, 7-11 lobed; lobes elliptic-lanceolate, 6-23 x 1.4-7 cm. Spathe 32-44 cm long, tube ovoid, margins connate, much shorter than the limb, greenish, mottled purplish-black inside. Peduncle 1.5-3.5 cm long. Spadix shorter than the spathe, appendage pale green, stout, 14-18 (-21) cm long, obtuse. Male zone 1-13 cm long. Neuter zone 1-1.2 cm long; neuter organs clavate, 4-5 mm long, yellow. Female zone 1.5-2 cm long. Ovary obovoid. Stigma sessile. Berries red. Seed ± ovoid, c. 1.8 mm broad.
Fl.Per.: April-May. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Bali Round, Chikhaldara |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | In FOLK medicine;
Sauromatum venosum: Corm powder with honey given for tuberculosis, bleeding piles and in blood cancer. Fresh corm paste applied over scorpion string (Bhogaonkar and Devarkar 2002). |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| 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.
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200027324 |
| 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 : ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some unique ethnomedicinal plants of Korkus of Melghat Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) "; Ethnobotany (2002); 14: 16-19 PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Alismatales |
| Family | : Araceae |
| Genus | : Sauromatum |
| Species | : Sauromatum guttatum (Wall.) Schott. |