Caralluma stalagmifera
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Caralluma stalagmifera is a species of plant from the subfamily of the asclepiadoideae (Asclepiadoideae). It occurs in India.
description
Vegetative characteristics
Caralluma stalagmifera is a perennial succulent plant. It develops little branched up to 60 cm high shoot axes , which taper strongly towards the tip. They have a diameter of 5 to 8 mm and are square in cross section with rounded edges. The upper section of the stem axis, which forms the inflorescence, is round. They are greenish in color, the edges often being reddish. The small leaves are narrow and triangular with a length of 2 to 3 millimeters.
Generative characteristics
The inflorescence usually bears only one, at most two flowers. The small bracts are sub-triangular. The slender, approximately 5 mm long peduncle is splayed out. The hermaphrodite flower is radially symmetrical and five-fold. The five sepals are 1.5 to 2 mm long. The five petals are fused at the base, the central part is briefly funnel-shaped. The fleshy crown is wheel-shaped with a diameter of about 1 cm. The color of the crown is greenish on the outside, uniformly dark cream-colored to dark purple-red on the inside and the corolla tube is cream-colored. The oval-lanceolate tips of the petals are hairy at the tip, the edges are turned over and the insides have a silky sheen. The flexible hairs at the tip of the petal lobes are up to 2 mm long, colored white to dark purple and hang down (species name!). The basal parts of the petal tip edges are often simply hairy. The secondary crown is dark purple in color.
The interstaminal corolla lobes are cupped at the base and filled with nectar. They are deeply notched towards the tip. They stand upright and show that the general shape is lanceolate-linear. The staminal lobes of the corolla are triangular-lanceolate, with margins at the upper end or finely three-toothed. The side edges can overlap a little. They are often hairy and downy. The pollinia measure 0.25 × 0.3 mm. The follicles are colored green with purple stripes.
Occurrence
Caralluma stalagmifera occurs in India . The type locality is Vandalur near Chennai , the former Madras in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu .
Taxonomy
The first description of Caralluma stalagmifera was made in 1925 by Cecil Ernest Claude Fischer in the Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information Kew , 430. The epithet stalagmifera alludes to the drooping hair at the tips of Kronblattzipfel on, from the Greek το στάλαγμα drop.
Medical importance
Caralluma stalagmifera is used in traditional Indian medicine ( Ayurveda ). The juice mixed with black pepper is orally taken against migraine . An extract from the fresh shoots is also given orally for diabetes . According to Reddy et al. (1996) Caralluma stalagmifera has anti-inflammatory effects.
supporting documents
Individual evidence
- ↑ Cecil Ernest Claude Fischer: Decades Kewenses. Plantarum Novarum in Herbario Horti Regii Conservatorum. Decas CXIII. Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, Royal Gardens, Kew, 1925: 426-433, Kew, 1925 (description of Caralluma stalagmifera on p. 430).
- ↑ Entry in Tropicos .
- ↑ Olaf Kunert, Belvotagi Venkatrao Adavi Rao, Gummadi Sridhar Babu, Medaboyina Padmavathi, Bobbala Ravi Kumar, Robert Michael Alex, Wolfgang Schühly, Nebojsa Simic, Doris Kühnelt and Achanta Venkata Narasimha Appa Rao: Novel Steroidal Glycosides from two C. Caralluma species. stalagmifera and C. indica. In: Helvetica Chimica Acta , 89: 201-209, 2006
- ^ BM Reddy; VV Byahatti, AVN Apparao and M. Ramesh: Anti-inflammatory activity of Stapelia nobilis and Caralluma stalagmifera. In: Fitoterapia , Volume 67 (6), 1996, pp. 545-547, ISSN 0367-326X
literature
- Birgit Müller and Focke Albers: Caralluma , p. 59. In: Focke Albers and Ulli Meve (eds.): Succulent lexicon Volume 3 Asclepiadaceae (silk plant plants) , Ulmer, Stuttgart 2002, ISBN 978-3-8001-3982-8 .
