| PlantID | 0111 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Botanical Name | Launaea sarmentosa | ||||||||||||||||||
| Common Name | NA | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Part used | Plant | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medicinal Properties | Soporific, tonic, diuretic, and aperient. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Medicinal Use | Used for rheumatism. Leaves consumed in times of scarcity. Fed to buffaloes as a galactagogue. Considered useful as a sand binder. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Chemistry | Leaves: taraxasterol. Roots: taraxeryl accetate. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Cultivation | NA | ||||||||||||||||||
| Regional Habitat | Abundantly growing species of sandy area. Distribution: Ganganagar, Jhunjhunu, Sikar, Dungarpur, Jaipur and Bharatpur districts of Rajasthan. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Description | Glabrous, procumbent, perennial herbs. Stem: 30-90 cm long, striate, rooting and bearing rosette leaves at the all nodes and arching between them. Leaves: rosulate, attenuate at base, oblanceolate, runcinate-pinnatifid, 2.2-17.0 cm long, segments 2-6 pairs, surfaces glaucous, apex acute/obtuse, margins denticulate, teeth indurated, white; cauline leaves few on flowering stem, lanceolate, 2.2-8.5 cm long. Flowers: capitula 0.9-1.5 cm long, solitary, borne on small bract covered; stalk 0.1-1.2 cm long, arising from the nodes; invol bracts 3-4-seriate, often purplish, margins white, membranous, 0.3-0.5-1.2 x 0.1-0.2 cm; those of outer series oblong, obtuse; inner ones linear-lanceolate; florets 20 in number; pappus unimorphic, 0.6-1.0 cm long, white, deciduous; corolla yellow, tube 0.4-0.5 cm long, ligules 0.6-1.0 cm long. Fruits: cypsels black, thickly 4-5 ribbed, 0.3-0.4 cm long, glabrous, minutely wrinkled, truncate or narrowed but scarcely beaked at the apex. Flowers and fruits appears during Ocotber - May. | ||||||||||||||||||
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Launaea sarmentosa