Janki Devi Bajaj Govt.

Girls College, Kota

Department of Botany

Common name –Ivy Gourd/ kundru

Botanical name – Coccinia grandis

Family: -Cucurbitaceae

Plant Description: - Ivy gourd is a fast-growing perennial vine that can be either trailing or climbing.
The vines are slender and can reach lengths of up to 5-10 meters (16-33 feet). The leaves are simple,
alternate, and heart-shaped with pointed tips. The plant produces tendrils that help it cling to
supports. Leaves 3-7 x 3-5 cm, palmately 3-5-lobed or angled, broadly ovate to orbicular in outline,
base cordate, margin denticulate, apex acute, upper surface punctate, lower surface glandular;
petiole 2.5-5 cm long. Flowers axillary, solitary. Fruit ovoid-oblong; pulp red. Seeds 6-7 mm long,
oblong, compressed.

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Medicinal Value: -

 Antidiabetic Properties: help regulate blood sugar levels.

 Antioxidant Activity: help neutralize harmful free radicals in the body.
 Antimicrobial Activity: They may have the ability to inhibit the growth of certain bacteria and
fungi.

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Common name – Harsingar

Botanical name – Nyctanthes arbor-tristis

Family: -Oleaceae

Plant Description: - a shrub or a small tree growing to 10 m (33 ft) tall, with flaky grey bark. The
leaves are opposite, simple, 6–12 cm (2.4–4.7 in) long and 2–6.5 cm (0.79–2.56 in) broad, with an
entire margin. The flowers are fragrant, with a five- to eight-lobed white corolla with an orange-red
centre; they are produced in clusters of two to seven together, with individual flowers opening at
dusk and finishing at dawn. The fruit is a bilobed, flat brown heart-shaped to round capsule 2 cm
(0.79 in) diameter, each lobe containing a single seed.

MedicinalValue: -

Anti-Inflammatory , analgesic (Pain-Relieving) , antipyretic (Fever-Reducing) & anti-arthritic

properties .

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Common name –Red Cattail, Chenille Plant.

Botanical name – Acalypha hispida.

Family: -Euphorbiaceae.

Plant Description: - It can grow to be 5–12 feet (1.5–3.7 m) tall, and have a spread of 3–6 feet (0.91–
1.83 m) . The plant is dioecious, The female plant bears pistillate flowers which are 0.7 millimeters
long and range in color from purple to bright red, and grow in clusters along catkins that catkins can
grow up to fifty centimeters (19.5 inches) or more in length.[6] This feature is the primary reason the
plant bears the nickname “red-hot cat tail”. The pistillates will grow all year long as long as the
temperatures are favorable. The leaves are large, oval and bright green to reddish copper.

Medicinal Value: - Wound Healing & anti-Inflammatory

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Common name -Basket plant

Botanical name- Callisia fragrans

Family – Commelinaceae

Plant description - The thick stems are rather fleshy and develop into long runners (i.e. stolons). The
flowering stems are more upright (i.e. erect or ascending) and reach up to 1.5 m tall. The large
clustered leaves are spirally arranged . These leaves are oblong or elongated (i.e. lanceolate) in
shape, hairless and have pointed tips The flowers are fragrant and clustered towards the tips
of long flowering stems These branched clusters contain large numbers of flowers and are arranged
into smaller dense clusters Individual flowers are almost stalkless Each flower also has six large white

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stamens, that can sometimes be mistaken for petals and an ovary topped with an elongated stigma.
Flowering occurs mostly during late winter and spring.The fruit are small, three-celled, capsules.

Medicinal value- It has a rich folkloric reputation as- an antiviral and antimicrobial plant. Its leaves
are used for treatment of various skin diseases, burns and joint disorders. An ethanol leaf extract has
been shown to effectively inhibit the infection of Vero cells by HSV-1, HSV-2 and an ACV-resistant
strain of the latter, in vitro. .

Source - wikipedia.org

Common name- Reed canarygrass

Botanical name- Phalaris arundinacea

Family – Poaceae

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Plant description- a robust, cool-season, sod-forming, perennial grass that produces culms (stems)
from creeping rhizomes. The culms grow 0.6-2 m tall. The leaf-blades are flat, 0.2-2 cm wide and up
to 0.5 m long. Flowers are arranged in dense, branched panicles that can exceed 5-20 cm in
length. Immature panicles are compact and resemble spikes, but open and become slightly spreading
at anthesis. . Most contain three florets, two of which are extremely reduced, linear and infertile.
One of the distinguishing features of the genus Phalaris is the presence of some infertile florets. The
lemmas in the infertile florets are approximately 1 mm long, while those of the fertile florets are 3-
4.5 mm long.

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Common name – Stonebreaker or seed-under-leaf

Botanical name – Phyllanthus niruri

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Family – phyllanthaceae

Plant description – It grows 50–70 cm (20–28 in) tall and bears ascending herbaceous branches. The
bark is smooth and light green. It bears numerous pale green flowers which are often flushed with
red. The fruits are tiny, smooth capsules containing seeds.The stem is cylindrical in section, smooth
and furrowed, glabrous. The branches are slightly angular.The leaves are simple and alternate,
distichous, numbering from 15 to 35 per branch .

Medicinal value – Internal use for jaundice, gonorrhea, frequent menstruation, and diabetes and
topical use as a poultice for skin ulcers, sores, swelling, and itchiness.

Source – portal.wiktrop.

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Common name -Mother of millions or chandelier plant

Botanical name – Kalanchoe delagoensis

Family – crassulaceae

Plant description – It is a robust, completely bare, biennial or more or less perennial, succulent plant
that reaches heights of between 0.2 and 2 meters. The upright stems are simple and round. The
three-seated, seemingly opposite or alternate leaves are usually upright to straight when spread out.
The compact, multi-flowered inflorescences form thyrses 10 to 25 centimeters long. The slender
flower stalk is between 6 and 20 millimeters long. The hermaphrodite flowers are hanging. The
reddish to green and red-striped petals are fused together like a bell. The upright follicles contain
seeds with a diameter of 0.6 to 2.5 millimeters.

Medicinal value – Help protect against certain types of cancer.

Source – wikipedia.org

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Common name – white jute / narcha

Botanical name – Corcorus capsularis

Family – Malvaceae

Plant description - Annual, erect, much branched herbs, 1-2.5 m high and glabrous. Leaves
alternate, linear-lanceolate to ovate, rounded at base, serrate at margin Flowers in 1 or 2 flowered
axillary or leaf-opposed cymes, 8-10 mm across, sessile or subsessile; bracts linear-ovate, 2-3 mm
long. Sepals linear-oblong, 4-5 mm long. Petals obovate, notched at apex, 3-5 mm long, yellow.
Stamens 20-30. Ovary subglobose, glabrous, 5-loculed. Capsules ca 1 cm across, truncate and
depressed at apex, longitudinally grooved, scabrous, wrinkled, muricate or tubercled, 5-loculed;
loculesaseptate; seeds cuneiform, ca 3 x 1 mm, glabrous, brown.

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Medicinal value –

 chronic cystitis
 gonorrhea
 dysuria
 detumescence
 heatstroke

Source – wikipedia/ indiabiodiversity.org

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Common name - Queen of the night , moonlight cactus

Botanical name – Selenicereus spp.

Family - Cactaceae

Plant description – a succulent plant with scented, climbing or sprawling, branched stems, which
sometimes form tangles, producing aerial, rigid roots, up to 10 m long or more, and 15–25 (–30) mm
thick.It has ribs on the branches which are less than on the older branches and internodes of (6–)
12–20 mm. The spines in number from 5-18, to 4.5-12 mm The flowers are 17-22.5 cm long and up
to 38 cm wide. The pericarp is 25 mm long, with 5 mm braces, band-shaped and yellowish . The fruit,
ovoid In shape, is 5-9 cm long, 4.5-7 cm thick, whitish in color, partly pink, pink, yellow or orange,
covered with clusters of thorns and hairs that soon fall off; it’s juicy.

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Medicinal value –

 For diabetes
 For heart diseases
 For maintaining healthy body weight
 Regulate blood pressure
 Motor neurons of the spinal cord.

Source – wikipedia / antropocene.it

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Common name - Sago Palm

Botanical name - Cycas spp.

Family - Cycadaceae

Plant Description - The plants are dioecious, formsgroup of leaf-like structures called
megasporophylls each with seeds on the lower margins, and pollen cones or strobilus on male
individuals. The caudex is cylindrical, surrounded by the persistent petiole bases. There are two
types of leaves - foliage leaves and scaly leaves. The foliage leaves are pinnate (or more rarely
bipinnate) and arranged spirally, with thick and hard keratinose.The leaflets are articulated, have
midrib but lack secondary veins. The scaly leaves are persistent, brown in colour and protective in
function. Megasporophylls are not gathered in cones. Pollination takes place by air.

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Common name - Janet Craig / Corn plants

Botanical name - Dracaena spp.

Family- Asparagaceae

Plant Description – A herbaceous perennials, and many grow from bulbs or corms. Leaves are
arranged in a spirally, forming a rosette atop a woody stem or cane, which bears the leaf scars of

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shed foliage, similar to a palm. The smaller, younger leaves are erect and spreading, while the older
leaves tend to droop under their own weight. Inflorescence is a downward hanging panicle about
50 to 150cm long, growing from the apical tip.. A number of species are large and treelike, though
their trunks are composed of fibrous rather than woody tissue, a distinction that clearly differentiates
them from true (dicotyledonous) trees. The fruits are dry capsules with three compartments or
fleshy berries.

Source - britannica.com /wikipedia.com/ www.nparks.gov.sg

Common name – Putranjeevak / lucky bean tree

Botanical name –Putranjiva roxburghii

Family – Putranjivaceae

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Plant Description: Putranjiva is a famous, moderate-sized, evergreen tree, growing up to 12 m in
height. It has pendant branches and dark grey bark having horizontal lenticels. Leaves are simple,
alternately arranged, dark green, shiny, elliptic-oblong, distantly serrated. Male flowers, with short
stalks, in rounded axillary clusters, female flowers 1-3 in leaf axil. Fruits ellipsoid or rounded drupes,
white velvety; seed normally one, stone pointed, rugose, very hard.

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Medicinal uses:

 Bark and leaves used as medicine; leaves and fruits used as medicine for rheumatism.
 Treatment of eye disorders, burning sensation, elephantiasis, difficulty in micturition,
azoospermia and habitual abortions.
 The name Putranjivaka denotes- which promotes or gives life to progeny, which promotes
fertility, both in men and women.
 Treatment of mouth and stomach ulcers, hot swellings, smallpox,
 And burning sensation and ophthalmopathy.

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Common name - Blue fox tail

Botanical name - Ecbolium viride

Family- Acanthaceae

Plant Description- It is a subshrub grows up to 1 m high . Leaves opposite, ovate-elliptic, , cuneate

at base, entire at margin, acute at apex, minutely pubescent; 7 - 9-pairs; Flowers 3 cm long, blueish-
green; bracts broadly ovate, 2.2 cm long; bracteoles subulate. Calyx 5-partite, lobe narrowly linear,
05 mm long . Corolla 5-lobed, tube cylindric, 3 cm long . Ovary globose, 03 mm long; 2-loculed;
ovules 2; style filiform, 3.5 cm long, hairy base; stigma capitate. Capsules ovoid, 1.5 cm long, longley
stalked, shortly beaked apex, pubescent; seeds 2, orbicular, 07 mm across, tuberculate, mucriate at
margin.

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