Persicaria perfoliata (L.) H.Gross

 
  • Family : POLYGONACEAE
    (Buckwheat Family)
  • Family (Hindi name) : JANGLI PALAK FAMILY (जंगली पालक फैमिली)
  • Family (as per The APG System III) : Polygonaceae
  • Basionym : Polygonum perfoliatum L.
  • Synonym(s) : Ampelygonum perfoliatum (L.) Roberty & Vautier; Fagopyrum perfoliatum (L.) Raf.; Polygonum paucifoliatum Gand.; Tracaulon perfoliatum (L.) Greene; Truellum perfoliatum (L.) Soják
  • Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Persicaria perfoliata (L.) H.Gross
  • Common name : Mile-A-Minute Vine, Mile-a-minute weed, Devil's tail, Giant climbing tearthumb
  • Vernacular name :
    • Ghumaauro Kaandaa, Amilo Piure Laharo, Baakhre Aankhlaa, Phaaphre Jhaar (Nepali)
    • Chepamullu kura (Telugu)
  • Habit : Herb
  • Habitat : Marshy ground in dry valleys of Himalayas, at altitudes of 100 - 2300 m.
  • Comments / notes : Fruits are edible (He et al. 1984) also used as herbal medicine (He et al. 1984, Yang & Kim 1993).
  • Key identification features : Climbing or ascending herbs, 1-3 m long; stem and branches prickly; Leaves broadly ovate or deltoid, long petiolate, margin and veins with recurved spines beneath; Flowers in terminal or axillary branched racemes, white or pink; Nuts obovoid, rounded, shining blue when ripe.
  • Flower, Fruit : May-October
  • Distribution :
    • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
    • Sikkim : Sikkim
    • Arunachal Pradesh : Subansiri, Tirap
  • Native : Amur, Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Hainan, India, Inner Mongolia, Japan, Jawa, Khabarovsk, Korea, Malaya, Manchuria, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Primorye, Sakhalin, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey, Vietnam
  • Exotic/Native : Native
  • World Distribution : North-East Turkey to Russian Far East and New Guinea and Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode I., Virginia, West Virginia
  • Literature :
    • Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 208
    • GRIERSON A.J.C. & LONG D.G. (1983). FLORA OF BHUTAN INCLUDING A RECORD OF PLANTS FROM SIKKIM Vol. 1: Part 1. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, EDINBURGH: 160
    • Prakasa Rao and Satish K.V., (2016). Persicaria perfoliata (L.) H. Gross (Polygonaceae): A species new to Eastern Ghats of India. Tropical Plant Research 3(2): 249-252
    • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 314
  • Read more :
  • Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Persicaria perfoliata. Downloaded on 13 October 2024.

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