Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH444 : Adenostemma lavenia (L.) Kuntze

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :

Synonym : Adenostemma aquaticum D.Don; Adenostemma elatum D.Don; Adenostemma erectum (Sw.) DC.; Adenostemma fastigiatum (Blume) DC.; Adenostemma fastigiatum var. fastigiatum; Adenostemma latifolium D.Don; Adenostemma lavenia var. aquaticum (D.Don) Kuntze; Adenostemma lavenia var. fastigiatum (Blume) Hook.f. ex Kuntze; Adenostemma lavenia var. typicum J.Kost.; Adenostemma lavenia var. viscosum (J.R.Forst. & G.Forst.) M.R.Almeida; Adenostemma leiocarpum DC.; Adenostemma macrophyllum var. repens (Blume) DC.; Adenostemma rivale Dalz.; Adenostemma rugosum DC.; Adenostemma viscosum var. fastigiatum (Blume) Blume ex C.B.Clarke; Adenostemma viscosum var. trisetum Miq.; Ageratum aquaticum Roxb.; Lavenia alba Wall.; Lavenia aquatica Spreng.; Lavenia carnosa Wall.; Lavenia dentata Wall.; Lavenia divaricata Ham.DC.; Lavenia elata Spreng.; Lavenia erecta Sw.; Lavenia fastigiata Blume; Lavenia latifolia Spreng.; Lavenia nudiflora DC.; Lavenia rugosa Wight;

Plant Common Name : Jangli-jira; Ghanerem; Sticky Daisy; Clubwort; Common Medicineplant;

Plant Family : Compositae

Description : Herbs, annual, 30-100 cm tall. Stems erect, solitary, rigid, usually divaricately branched in upper part, white puberulent, glabrous in lower part. Leaves remote; basal leaves persistent or withered at anthesis; median leaves large; petiole narrowly winged, 0.5-4 cm; blade elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic or rhombic-elliptic, or broadly ovate to cordate, 4-12 × 2-5 cm, both surfaces sparsely puberulent or glabrescent, usually rather densely hairy on veins, base broadly or narrowly cuneate, margin crenate or incised, serrate, or doubly serrate, apex acute or obtuse; upper and lower leaves smaller, shortly petiolate. Capitula few, rarely many, small, in a lax or dense corymb or panicle; peduncle 0.8-3 cm, gray-white or ferruginous puberulent; involucre hemispheric, 4-5 × 6-8 mm, to 10 mm in diam. at fruiting; phyllaries 2-seriate, green, subequal, narrowly elliptic, thin, submembranous, outer phyllaries mostly connate, sparsely white villous, apex obtuse; corollas ca. 2.5 cm, viscid-glandular, pubescent. Achenes blackish brown when mature, oblanceolate, ca. 4 × 1 mm, glandular, sometimes densely tuberculate, contracted at base, apex obtuse; pappus elements clavate, ca. 4.1 mm, basally connate into a ring, fulvous viscid-glandular. Fl. and fr. Aug-Oct. 2n = 20.

Plant Location in Melghat : Moist places

Medicinal Use / Activity : Traditionally the leaf paste is applied on cuts and wound, insect and caterpillar bites.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Adenostemmoside; Adenostemmoic acid;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0):

Plant's Current Status :

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book

Reference : ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass : Asteridae
Order : Asterales
Family : Asteraceae / Compositae - Aster family
Genus : Adenostemma J.R. Forst. & G. Forst. - medicineplant
Species : Adenostemma lavenia (L.) Kuntze – common medicineplant

Adenostemma lavenia (L.) Kuntze – common medicineplant
Adenostemma lavenia (L.) Kuntze – common medicineplant
Adenostemma lavenia (L.) Kuntze – common medicineplant