| PlantID | 0108 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Botanical Name | Launaea capitata | ||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name | NA | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Part used | NA | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medicinal Properties | NA | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medicinal Use | Useful in eye-ache (poultice). | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chemistry | Apigenin-7-glucoside and its 7-gentiobioside; luteolin-7-glucoside and its 7-gentiobioside, 7-rutinoside, 7,3'-diglucoside, 7,4'-diglucoside and 7-gentiobioside-4'-glucoside. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cultivation | NA | ||||||||||||||||||
| Regional Habitat | Rare, in wet sandy soils. Distribution: Ganganagar and Sirohi districts of Rajasthan. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Glabrous, perennial herbs. Stem: numerous, decumbent, diffuse, almost leafless. Leaves: radical ones sessile, sinutely lobed or pinnatifid; lobes rounded, margins having cartilaginous teeth. Flowering branches spreading, sparingly dichotomously branched. Flowers: capitula sub-sessile, clustered at the end of branches; involucre campanulate, invol. bracts outer ones ovate, margins membranous, inner ones oblong-lanceolate; pappus-hairs white. Fruits: cypsel oblong, winged, truncate at both ends, white or pale-yellow. Flowers and fruits appears during October to December. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Launaea capitata