Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MS065 : Dregea volubilis (L. f.) Benth. ex Hook. f.

Plant Category : Shrubs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 297

Synonym : Asclepias volubilis Linnaeus f.; Dregea formosana T. Yamazaki; Hoya formosana T. Yamazaki; Tylophora macrantha Hance; Wattakaka volubilis (Linnaeus f.) Stapf.;

Plant Common Name : Sneeze Wort, Cotton milk plant, Green milkweed climber, Green wax flower, Sneezing silk • Hindi: akad bel, harandodi, nak-chikni • Marathi: harandodi, nakhasikani • Tamil: koti-p-palai • Malayalam: velipparuthi • Telugu: dudipalatiga • Kannada: dugdhive • Bengali: tita kunga • Oriya: dudghika • Assamese: Khamal lata • Gujarati: Kadvo kharkhodo • Sanskrit: hemajivanti

Plant Family : Apocynaceae

Description : Lianas to 12 m. Branches pale gray, lenticellate, branchlets green, smooth. Petiole 2.5-6 cm; leaf blade broadly ovate or suborbicular, 7-18 × 4-17 cm, glabrous or soft pubescent, base shallowly cordate, apex acute or short acuminate; lateral veins ca. 4 pairs. Inflorescences pendent, many flowered; peduncle 2-6 cm, slender, puberulent. Pedicel 2-2.5 cm; flowers green or yellowish green, fragrant. Sepals ovate-oblong, 2.5-3 mm, pubescent, ciliate. Corolla glabrous; lobes broadly ovate, 6-12 × 5-12 mm, obtuse, ciliate. Corona yellowish green, 4-4.5 mm in diam. Anther appendages white; pollinia oblong. Ovaries pilose. Follicles narrowly ovoid, 10-15 × 3-4 cm, longitudinally wrinkled-striate or irregularly ribbed. Seeds ovate, ca. 1.2 cm × 6 mm, flattened, marginate; coma ca. 4.5 cm. Fl. Apr-Sep, fr. Jul-Dec. 2n = 22.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : The leaves are much employed as an application to boils and abscesses. The roots and tender stalks are considered emetic and expectorant. The young roots are cut and the exuding juice is inserted into the nose to cause sneezing. used to treat rheumatic pain, cough, fever and severe cold. Leaf paste is taken along with pepper to treat dyspepsia; bark paste mixed with hot milk is used internally for treating urinary infections.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Polyoxypregnane glycoside; Phytol; Hexadecanoic acid; Oxirane;

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/229575 - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=2&taxon_id=200018603 - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Sneeze%20Wort.html - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3757155/ - http://thescipub.com/pdf/10.3844/ajbbsp.2009.202.209

Reference : ~ Chellaiah Muthu, Muniappan Ayyanar, Nagappan Raja and Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu; "Medicinal plants used by traditional healers in Kancheepuram District of Tamil Nadu, India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2006); 2(43): 1-10 PMID :

~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass :
Order : Gentianales
Family : Apocynaceae
Genus : Dregea
Species : Dregea volubilis(L. f.) Benth. ex Hook. f.

Dregea volubilis(L. f.) Benth. ex Hook. f.
Dregea volubilis(L. f.) Benth. ex Hook. f.
Dregea volubilis(L. f.) Benth. ex Hook. f.
Dregea volubilis(L. f.) Benth. ex Hook. f.