Plant Category | : | Shrubs |
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 1 |
Synonym | : | Clematis triloba Heyne ex Roth |
Plant Common Name | : | Deccan Clematis • Hindi: Murhar • Marathi: Morvel, Ranjaee • Kannada: Merhari • Sanskrit: Laghuparnika |
Plant Family | : | Ranunculaceae |
Description | : | an annual climber, 1-3 m long, found mainly in the Deccan region of Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra. Stems are velvet hairy. Leaves are either simple or trifoliate, 3-5 cm, ovate. The leaf margin is either entire, or 3-7 lobed. Most commonly seen leaves are 3-lobed. Leaf stalks are slender, 2-8 cm, twinning. Fragrant white flowers, 2-4 cm across, occur in panicles in leaf axils. Clematis have no real petals. What appear to be petals are, in reality, sepals. Deccan Clematis flowers have 4-6 white sepals, 1-2 cm long, oblong. Many stamens arise from the center, about a cm long. Stamens are shorter than the sepals, unlike Clematis gauriana. Flowering: September-December. |
Plant Location in Melghat | : | In Chikhaldara & Dhakna range |
Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Aromatic oil. Skin problems; The juice of the leaves, combined with that of the leaves of Holarrhena antidysenterica, is dropped into the eye for the relief of pain in staphyloma; about 2 drops being used. Vaidya Rugnatbji of Junagad says the whole plant is a purgative. It is said to be used as a remedy in leprosy, blood diseases and fever by Sanskrit authors. |
Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: - ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
Plant's Current Status | : | Common |
Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Deccan%20Clematis.html
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/251443
- https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/indian_medicinal_plants/d/doc213929.html |
Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); 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 | : Ranunculales |
Family | : Ranunculaceae |
Genus | : Clematis |
Species | : Clematis triloba A.St.-Hil. |