Caralluma adscendens

Caralluma adscendens
Caralluma adscendens var. Fimbriata Illustration from a catalog by George Loddiges
Systematics
Family : Dog poison family (Apocynaceae) Subfamily : Silk plants (Asclepiadoideae) Tribe : Ceropegieae Sub tribus : Stapeliinae Genre : Caralluma Type : Caralluma adscendens
Scientific name
Caralluma adscendens
( Roxb. ) Haw.

Caralluma adscendens is a species of the genus Caralluma within the silk plant family(Apocynaceae). Their natural range is in India and Sri Lanka as well as in Arabia and North Africa .

description

Shoot axes and flowers with radial symmetry

Vegetative characteristics

In Caralluma adscendens is a perennial , succulent plant with crawling and erected at the end of succulent, four-sided stems , which reach a length of 30 to 65 centimeters. Depending on the variety, the plant is richly branched to almost or completely unbranched and the stems are blunt to sharp-edged. The stem is green in color, often reddish towards the tip. The leaves are reduced to lanceolate scale leaves , the conical tubercles sit on the stem edges, they are only present on young shoots and fall off later.

Generative characteristics

The flowers sit individually or in two or three arm-flowered inflorescences in the leaf axils, on permanent, tubercle-like growths. The upright or pendulous flowers sit on 1 to 4 millimeters long, thin, flower stems. The hermaphroditic flowers are about 2.5 centimeters in diameter and are radially symmetrical and five-fold. The calyx tips are lanceolate to ovate, very short and brown in color. The lanceolate corolla lobes are basal yellowish to greenish in color with dark purple stripes or purple spots, in the end half purple or brown. The petals are spread out or slightly bell-shaped inclining, their outer sections are hairy. Caralluma adscendens can bloom all year round.

Systematics

Of Caralluma adscendens there are the following varieties:

• Caralluma adscendens (Roxb.) Haw. var. adscendens
• Caralluma adscendens var. Attenuata (Wight) Grav. & Mayur.
• Caralluma adscendens var. Bicolor (VSRamach., S.Joseph, HAJohn & Sofiya) Karupp., Ugraiah & Pull.
• Caralluma adscendens var. Carinata Gravely & Mayur.
• Caralluma adscendens var. Fimbriata (Wall.) Gravely & Mayur.
• Caralluma adscendens var. Geniculata Gravely & Mayur.
• Caralluma adscendens var. Gracilis Gravely & Mayur.

use

Food

Caralluma adscendens has served as an essential food in rural India for centuries. It is still regarded as “poor people's food” (so-called famine food), which is consumed raw or as seasoned wild vegetables or as an addition to chutneys and pickles . Caralluma adscendens is often found on the roadside and is also suitable for border marking.

Food supplements

The hunger-relieving effect of Caralluma adscendens , as described by consumers, prompted suppliers of diet pills to market their products as Caralluma fimbriata-containing miracle products for weight loss. Consumers should take this effect with caution, since a herbal active ingredient with significant weight-regulating properties would only receive approval as a medicinal product . Approval as a dietary supplement simply means that there are no objections under food law .

ingredients

The main ingredients of Caralluma adscendens are flavonoids , other glycosides and saponins . As a defense against fungal attack is Caralluma adscendens hesperidin .

Web links

Commons : Caralluma adscendens  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Caralluma adscendens . In: U. Brunken, M. Schmidt, S. Dressler, T. Janssen, A. Thiombiano, G. Zizka: West African plants - A Photo Guide. Senckenberg Research Institute, Frankfurt am Main 2008.

Individual evidence

1. ^ ^{A b} Focke Albers, Ulrich Meve: Illustrated Handbook of Succulent Plants: Asclepiadaceae: Asclepiadaceae , Volume 4, Springer-Verlag, 2002. ISBN 978-3-540-41964-8 . on p. 48.
2. ^ ^{A b} F. H. Gravely, PV Mayuranathan: The Indian species of the genus Caralluma (Fam. Asclepiadaceae). Bulletin of the Madras Government Museum, April 1931. PDF download ( Memento of the original from May 30, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ KM Prabhu Kumar, UC Murshida, Binu Thomas, Satheesh George, Indira Balachandran, S. Karuppusamy (2014): Notes on Caralluma adscendens (Roxb.) Haw. var. attenuata (Wight) Grav. & Mayur. (Apocynaceae: Asclepiadoideae). In: Journal of Threatened Taxa , Volume 6, Issue 9, pp. 6282-6286. Download PDF
4. ↑ The Plant List: Caralluma adscendens (Roxb.) R.Br.
5. ↑ The Plant List: Caralluma adscendens var. Attenuata (Wight) Grav. & Mayur.
6. ↑ ^{a b} Rafaël Govaerts (ed.): Caralluma. In: World Checklist of Selected Plant Families (WCSP) - The Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew . Accessed January 2, 2020.
7. ↑ llifle.com: Caralluma adscendens var. Carinata Gravely & Mayur.
8. ↑ The Plant List: Caralluma adscendens var. Fimbriata (Wall.) Gravely & Mayur.
9. ↑ The Plant List: Caralluma adscendens var. Geniculata Gravely & Mayur.
10. ↑ llifle.com: Caralluma adscendens var. Gracilis Gravely & Mayur.
11. ↑ Federal Office for Consumer Protection and Food Safety: Dietary Supplements

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