Herb
🗒 Synonyms
| synonym | Arum tortuosum Wall. |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Morphology
leaves 2-3, leaflets 5-18 sessile or petiolulate ovate- or linear-lanceolate snbcaudately acuminate, tube of green spathe about as long as the large incurved broadly cymbiform acuminate limb, appendage narrowed from the base to the tip erect then porrect and again erect. Tubers spheroidal, attaining 5 in. diam. Petiole 1-3 ft., green or with the sheaths mottled with purple; leaflets 8-18 in., distant or crowded, or almost radiately disposed. Peduncle 2-4 ft. Spathe 4-6 in., pale green or purplish, tube subcylindric, gaping, gradually dilating into the limb. Spadix uni- or bisexual ; appendage like a rat's tail, quite smooth.
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Hilly areas, semi evergreen dense forests, along stream banks, rock crevices
Description
Global Distribution
India: Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Maharastra, Sikkim
Indian Distribution
Goalpara in Chakrasila Wildlife Sanctuary
Global Distribution
India, Bhutan, China South-Central, East Himalaya, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Tibet, West Himalaya
Indian Distribution
Assam, NE India and across the country
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Folk medicine
System Of Medicines Used In
Folk medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=2422
| Attributions | FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=2422 |
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| Status | UNDER_CREATION |
| Licenses | CC_BY |
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Medicinal - tuber, rhizome, whole herb, root, fruit
Compiled from secondary sources listed in references by Poornima Viswanathan for the Assam Biodiversity Portal project.
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📚 Information Listing
References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=2422
- Plants of the World Online. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:85841-1 (Accessed on 08 May 2018)
- Verma H, Lal V, Pant K, Soni NA. 2012. Ethno medicinal Review on Arisaema tortuosum. Int J Adv Pharm Biol Chem. 1(2):176–179. http://www.ijapbc.com/files/03-125.pdf
- Botanical Survey of India. http://efloraindia.nic.in/efloraindia/speciesDesc_PCL.action?species_id=2012 (Accessed on 08 May 2018)
- Hooker, J. D. 1893. Flora of British India. Vol. 6. Part XIX. p449-672. L. Reeve and Co., London. https://archive.org/details/floraofbritishin06hookrich
Information Listing > References
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=2422
- Plants of the World Online. http://powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:85841-1 (Accessed on 08 May 2018)
- Verma H, Lal V, Pant K, Soni NA. 2012. Ethno medicinal Review on Arisaema tortuosum. Int J Adv Pharm Biol Chem. 1(2):176–179. http://www.ijapbc.com/files/03-125.pdf
- Botanical Survey of India. http://efloraindia.nic.in/efloraindia/speciesDesc_PCL.action?species_id=2012 (Accessed on 08 May 2018)
- Hooker, J. D. 1893. Flora of British India. Vol. 6. Part XIX. p449-672. L. Reeve and Co., London. https://archive.org/details/floraofbritishin06hookrich
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🐾 Taxonomy
| Root | Root |
| Kingdom | Plantae |
| Phylum | Tracheophyta |
| Class | Liliopsida |
| Order | Alismatales |
| Family | Araceae |
| Genus | Arisaema |
| Species | Arisaema tortuosum (Wall.) Schott |
📊 Temporal Distribution
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