Leea edgeworthii Santapau
Leea edgeworthii Santapau
Leea edgeworthii Santapau
Leea edgeworthii Santapau
MS028 : Leea edgeworthii Santapau
| Plant Category | : | Shrubs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 89 |
| Synonym | : | Leea asiatica (L.) Ridsdale.;
Gastonia nalugu Lam.;
Gilibertia nalugu (Lam.) DC.;
Leea aspera Edgew.;
Leea crispa D. Royen ex L.;
Leea herbacea Buch.-Ham.;
Leea marginworthii Santapau;
Leea pinnata Andrews.;
Leea pumila Kurz.;
Leea sanguinea M'Lell. ex C. B. Clarke.;
Phytolacca asiatica L.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Banchalita • Hindi: banchalita • Manipuri: Koknal • Bengali: Banchalita;
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| Plant Family | : | Vitaceae / Leeaceae |
| Description | : | Shrub up to 3 m tall, stem herbaceous, shoot not winged. Leaves unipinnately compound, lowest pair of leaflets rarely again pinnately compound, leaflets elliptic, 6-20 x 2.5-12 cm, scabrous with few white hairs above, hairy on the nerves below, cordate-rounded, acuminate, serrate; lateral petiolulate 1-2 cm long; stipules large, c. 1.4 cm long, adherent to the petiole, pubescent to glabrous, caducous. Peduncles 0 to 5 cm long. Flowers white or greenish white, c. 4 mm across; bracts filiform, longer in old flowers, smaller upwards, ± persistent, hairy. Calyx cupular, 5-lobed, lobes 2-5 mm long, linear, subulate, obtuse and gland-tipped. Petals 5, ovate 1.5-2 mm long. Staminal tube divided about half way down or a little less. Berry black, smooth, depressed-globose, 4-6 mm in diameter, entire or obscurely 6-lobed, glabrous. Fruit edible. Fl. Per.: August-November. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Stream banks in valley bottoms |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | The root tuber is used as a treatment against guineaworms. The root, combined with the bark of Boswellia serrata, is made into paste which is prescribed in cases of snake bite. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: - ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/230202
- http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=242328695
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Leea+asiatica |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Ethnomedicinal plants used in skin treatment by Korkus of Melghat Dist. Amravati (MS), India"; Life Sciences Leaflets (2011); 178-191 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 | : Vitales |
| Family | : Vitaceae - Grape family |
| Genus | : Leea |
| Species | : Leea edgeworthii Santapau |