Plant Category | : | Herbs |
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
Synonym | : | Senecio grahamii Hook.f.; |
Plant Common Name | : | Sonki, Graham's Groundsel, Bhujbal |
Plant Family | : | Asteraceae |
Description | : | It is seen on hill-slopes, old roofs and forks of trees. It is an erect branched annual herb, growing to 30-100 cm high. Alternately arranged, rhomboid, coarsely toothed leaves are 3-10 cm long. Golden yellow flower-heads are 1-2 cm across. Ray-flowers ("petals") are 10-15 in number, linear oblong. Disk flowers are also yellow, but in a darker shade. |
Plant Location in Melghat | : | Rare, only on and around Chikhaldara plateau. |
Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Leaf Juice used to cure and strengthen bleeding gums and also in stomach problems. Leaves chewed like chewing gum, for strengthening teeth (Bhogaonkar and Devarkar 2002). |
Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: 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 : ~ 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 |
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Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
Subclass | : |
Order | : Asterales |
Family | : Asteraceae |
Genus | : Senecio |
Species | : Senecio bombayensis N.P.Balakr. |