thanks bhagyashri jee for a great information & right a common weed V.cinerea
On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 8:05 PM, Madhuri Raut <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you so much Dr Phadke and Tanayji. I was not very sure of the prior > identification . But now I am happy and have found so much info about this > common weed but so useful > > *Vernonia cinerea* > > > > > > *Botanical Name:* Vernonia cinerea > *Sanskrit Name:* Sahadevi > *English Name:* Purple Fleabane > *Family:** *Asteraceae > > *Description of** **Vernonia cinerea: > *The stem is slender, grooved and ribbed. The leaves are variable in > shape, broadly elliptic or lanceolate, membranous or rather coriaceous. The > flowers are pinkish and purple, in minute heads in rounded or flat-topped > corymbs. The achenes are oblong, terete, & slightly narrowed at the base. > > *Principal Constituents: > *Triterpenes are the major constituent of the herb. > 24-hydroxytaraxer-14-ene was identified and the structure was elucidated. > b-amyrin acetate, b-amyrin benzoate, lupeol and its acetate, b-sitosterol, > sigmasterol and a-spinasterol were isolated > > > > *Toxicology > *No adverse effect was reported on usage of this plant as a drug. > > *Medicinal Uses: > *The juice of the plant is given to children with urinary incontinence. > The leaves are eaten as a potherb. A decoction of it is also given in > diarrhea, stomachache and for cough and colic. > > > > Vernonia cinerea. > Synonym: Cyanthillium cinereum. > Common names: Ash Fleabane, Small Ironweed. > Common Hindi names: Sahadevi, Daudotpala. > Plant: 15-75cm. Erect branching annual herb. One of the commonest plants, > seen in every possible niche from roof tops by the sea up to the > Himalaya(1,800m). Often variable in appearance. > Leaves: 1-5cm (rarely to 7-8cm) long. ovate acute, or variably shaped. > Flower: 4mm across. > Presumably indigenous in southeastern Asia and Malesia, now adventive in > most southern Pacific archipelagoes and elsewhere in the tropics, including > Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and America. > Leaves, roots and seeds are used in traditional medicine. > > > > > > The Vernonia cinerea - a widespread weed, in waste places and gardens. > > > Grows not more than 1 metre tall, usually 0.5 meters. Purple flowering > heads, called "cupid's shaving brush", sometimes pinkish, small 6 -7 mm. > > > Leave your lawn unmowed for a month and the Vernonia cinerea will be the > first to sprout to prominence . > > Used in traditional medicine in most cultures. In Tamil medicine, its juice > is used mainly as a vehicle for other compositions, besides being a lone > prescription. > > > The ripe seeds, with 'feathers' waiting for a wind to blow them to your > grass patch. > > > > > Small Ironweed (Vernonia cinerea) > > Vernonia cinerea, sometimes called the "small ironweed", is an erect annual > herb, 8-1.60 cm tall. Stem ribbed, sparingly branched, finely pubescent, > glandular. Leaves alternate, lower leaves narrowed into petiole, very > variable as to shape, obovate, oval, ovate, rhomboid-oval, narrowly oblong, > lanceolate or linear, all leaves subentire or repandate-dentate, herbaceous, > gland-dotted beneath, on both surfaces finely pubescent, 1-8½ cm (1/2-3 cm > long petiole disregarded) by ½-3 ½ cm; uppermost ones minute. > > The inflorescence terminal, purple or violet sometimes pink, heads > 20-25-flowered, 6-7 mm long, rather numerous, in corymbs, on filiform, 2-14 > mm long peduncles; involucral bracts very acutely acuminate;; involucre > 4-seriate, 4-5 mm long, bracts pubescent, often tinged with purple, narrowly > pellucid-margined, lanceolate, 1-nerved, glandular. Achenes with 4-5 ribs, > rather densely white-apressed-hairy, 1 ½-2 mm long; inner-pappus hairs 4-5 > mm long; outer ones very short. Its seeds (achenes) are wind-dispersed. > > The small iron weed presumably originated from the Malesian region of > Southeast Asia but is now a weed in Oceana, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, > and the Americas typically found naturalized in urban areas and relatively > dry, disturbed sites, > > Regards > > Bhagyashri > > On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 7:50 PM, Tanay Bose <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Yes Satish Ji said the right *Vernonia cinerea* >> A weed in India. >> Tanay >> >> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 6:56 AM, Satish Phadke <[email protected]>wrote: >> >>> To me it looks like *Vernonia cinerea* a very common roadside plant. >>> Dr Phadke >>> >>> On Tue, Sep 13, 2011 at 12:49 PM, Madhuri Raut <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> Request for identification >>>> >>>> >>>> Date/Time-Sep 2011 >>>> >>>> >>>> Location- Place, Altitude, GPS-Pune >>>> >>>> >>>> Habitat- Garden/ Urban/ Wild/ Type-wild >>>> >>>> >>>> Plant Habit- Tree/ Shrub/ Climber/ Herb- plant >>>> >>>> >>>> Height/Length-1.5 ft >>>> >>>> >>>> Leaves Type/ Shape/ Size-green >>>> >>>> >>>> Flowers Size/ Colour/ Calyx/ Bracts- light purple buds white flowers >>>> >>>> >>>> Fruits Type/ Shape/ Size Seeds- ?brown seeds >>>> >>>> >>>> Other Information it looks like cotton I do not know how to describe >>>> this correclly >>>> >>>> >>>> Regards >>>> >>>> Bhagyashri >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> *Tanay Bose* >> Research Assistant & Teaching Assistant. >> Department of Botany. >> University of British Columbia . >> 3529-6270 University Blvd. >> Vancouver, B.C. 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