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