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Boerhavia diffusa belongs to a pantropical complex whose distribution, because of differing taxonomic treatments, is not precisely discernable. In North America, the West Indies, and elsewhere, the complex has been treated as having one (e.g., R. W. Long and O. Lakela 1971; R. P. Wunderlin 1998) or two species (E. A. Kellogg 1988; J. K. Small 1913c; P. C. Standley 1918; C. Whitehouse 1996). In the latter situation various binomials have been used. The abrupt bend in the ribs near the fruit apex, making a broadly conic apex, seems to be a useful character for distinguishing most
B. diffusa. The shape of the apex, the sparse pubescence of the fruit, the few fruits in individual terminal clusters, and the open, ± leafless inflorescence may have led R. E. Woodson Jr. and H. J. Kidd (1961) to suspect hybridization of this complex with the annual
B. erecta. Hybridization is plausible (R. Spellenberg 2000), but clearly intermediate plants are not known.
The leaves are sometimes used as a vegetable (C. Whitehouse 1996). Extracts from roots are used to prepare an expectorant, a diuretic, and a laxative, and in treating asthma (S. P. Ambasta 1986).
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The plants are used medicinally.
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Resembles Boerhavia procumbens Banks ex Roxb. from which it differs mainly in its fusiform fruits. I have not seen any authentic specimens of this species from Pakistan. It is common in Sri Lanka (the type locality of this species.)
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Herbs, perennial [rarely appearing annual], sometimes slightly woody at base; taproot fusiform, woody. Stems decumbent, ascending, or erect, usually profusely branched throughout, 3-10 dm, glabrous or minutely pubescent basally, glabrous or sparsely pubescent distally. Leaves mostly in basal 1/2 of plant; larger leaves with petiole 10-30 mm, blade broadly lanceolate, ovate, or broadly ovate, occasionally ± round, 20-60 × 15-50 mm (distal leaves smaller, often proportionally narrower), base truncate, broadly cuneate, round, or shallowly cordate, often oblique, margins sinuate, apex obtuse to round, abaxial surface paler than adaxial, glabrous or minutely puberulent, sometimes glandular, usually with few large multicellular hairs on veins, adaxial surface glabrous, rarely sparsely puberulent, neither surface punctate. Inflorescences terminal, forked ca. 3-6 times ± equally, diffuse, occasionally with sticky internodal bands; branches divergent, terminating in compact subumbellate or capitate, 2-5-flowered clusters. Flowers: pedicel shorter than 0.5 mm; bract at base of perianth quickly deciduous, 1, lanceolate, 0.8-1 mm; perianth purplish red to reddish pink or nearly white, campanulate beyond constriction, 1-1.5 mm; stamens 2-3, included or barely exserted. Fruits (1-)2-5(-9) per cluster, gray-brown to brown, obpyramidal, (3-)3.5-4.5 × 1-1.2 mm (l/w: 2.8-4.1), apex broadly conic, with sparse or moderately dense stipitate-glandular hairs on ribs, less densely pubescent or glabrous in sulci [rarely entirely glabrous]; ribs 5, round, smooth; sulci ± 2-2.5 times as wide as base of ribs, not rugose, not papillate. 2n = 26, 52, 54, 116.
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Herbs perennial. Stems trailing, to 200 cm; stems glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Roots thick, fleshy. Petiole 0.4-2 cm; leaf blade ovate, 1-5 × 1-4 cm, both surfaces sparsely pubescent, abaxially gray-yellow, wrinkled when dry, base rounded or cuneate, margin undulate, with stout, muticellular hairs, apex obtuse or acute. Inflorescences terminal, capitate-cymose panicles; peduncle slender, sparsely pubescent. Pedicel short to almost absent. Bracts small, lanceolate, pubescent. Perianth limb bright purple or purple-red, 1.5-2 mm. Stamens 1-3(-5), slightly exserted or included. Anthocarp clavate, 3-3.5 mm, 5-ribbed, with viscid glands and sparse pubescence, apex rounded. Fl. and fr. spring-autumn.
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Distribution
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Tropical and subtropical regions of Old World.
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Fla., Ga., S.C.; Mexico; West Indies; Central America; South America; Asia; Africa; Indian Ocean Islands; Pacific Islands; Australia.
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Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Sichuan, S Taiwan, Yunnan [Cambodia, India, Indonesia, Japan (Ryukyu Islands), Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam; Africa, America, Australia, Pacific Islands].
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Elevation Range
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300-1200 m
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Flowering mid winter-early fall [year-round].
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Disturbed areas, waste places, roadsides, dry pinelands, among scrub on tropical reefs; 0-50[-1800]m.
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Open places near sea, dry and warm river valleys; 100-1900 m.
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Synonym
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Boerhavia diffusa var. mutabilis R. Brown; B. repens var. diffusa (Linnaeus) Heimerl ex J. D. Hooker.
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Boerhavia diffusa
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Boerhavia diffusa ye una especie de parrotal perteneciente a la familia Nyctaginaceae. Ye usada como planta melecinal poles sos propiedaes diurétiques.[1] B. diffusa ta bien esvalixada, yá que se producen a lo llargo de la India, el Pacíficu y el sur d'Estaos Xuníos. Esta amplia gama esplicar pol so frutu pequeñu, que son bien pegañosos y crecen unos centímetros del suelu, nuna posición ideal pa enferronase a les pequeñes aves migratories que pasen pellí.[2]
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Un mozu
charrán aveséu adquirió daqué de fruta pegañoso de
B. diffusa dempués de caminar al traviés d'elles.
Descripción
Ye una planta que mide 1 m d'altor, los tarmos siéntense pegañosos y aspros. Les fueyes son más o menos arrondaes y nel aviesu vense pálides. Les flores son de color moráu, tán asitiaes en cabezueles y atópense nes puntes de la planta.
Distribución y hábitat
Planta cosmopolita tropical, habita en clima templáu ente los 200 y los 650 metros, acomuñada a vexetación alteriada de monte tropical caducifoliu, sabana y manglar.
Propiedaes
En Morelos emplégase esta planta pa les úlceras y mancaes de la piel. Asina, pa curales prepárase tola planta en fervinchu con alcohol, onde se dexa tola nueche y colla llava l'área afeutada. Darréu úntase una pomada ellaborada cola planta macerada entemecida con mantega, aceite de ricino y aceite rosáu. En Oaxaca, sicasí, tómase'l fervinchu de les fueyes como purgante.[3]
Boerhaavia diffusa demostró actividá antibacteriana, principalmente contra bacteries Gram negatives,[4][5] Los estractos de les fueyes de Boerhaavia diffusa amosaron propiedaes antiosidantes y hepatoprotectoras en modelos farmacolóxicos.[6] Punarnavine, un alcaloide aislláu de Boerhaavia diffusa demostróse in vitro anticanceroso,[7] antiestrogénico,[8] antiamebiano[9] y con actividá inmunolóxica.[10]
Taxonomía
Boerhavia diffusa describióse por Carlos Linneo y espublizóse en Species Plantarum 1: 3. 1753.[11]
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Axia cochinchinensis Lour.
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Boerhavia adscendens Willd.
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Boerhavia caespitosa Ridl.
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Boerhavia ciliatobracteata Heimerl
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Boerhavia coccinea var. leiocarpa (Heimerl) Standl.
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Boerhavia coccinea var. paniculata Moscoso
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Boerhavia friesii Heimerl
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Boerhavia paniculata Rich.
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Boerhavia repens var. diffusa (L.) Hook.f.
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Boerhavia xerophila Domin[12]
- Arete, golondrina, palu d'agua, siempreviva.
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Referencies
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↑ Jarald Y., Nalwaya N., Sheeja Y., Ahmad S., Jamalludin S. "Comparative study on diuretic activity of few melecinal plants in individual form and in combination form." Indian Drugs 2010 47:3 (20-24)
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↑ «Dispersal to Islands». www.sherwincarlquist.com.
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↑ En Medicina tradicional mexicana
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↑ Wagh S., Vidhale N.N.,"Antimicrobial efficacy of Boerhaavia diffusa against some human pathogenic bacteria and fungi" Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia 2010 7:1 (267-272)
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↑ Wagh S., Vidhale N.N. "Antimicrobial efficacy of Boerhaavia diffusa against some human pathogenic bacteria and fungi" Biosciences Biotechnology Research Asia 2010 7:1 (267-272)
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↑ Olaleye M.T., Akinmoladun A.C., Ogunboye A.A., Akindahunsi A.A.,"Antioxidant activity and hepatoprotective property of leaf extracts of Boerhaavia diffusa Linn against acetaminophen-induced liver damage in rats." Food and Chemical Toxicology 2010 48:8-9 (2200-2205)
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↑ Manu K.A., Kuttan G. "Punarnavine induces apoptosis in B16F-10 melanoma cells by inhibiting NF-kappaB signaling." Asian Pacific journal of cancer prevention : APJCP 2009 10:6 (1031-1037)
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↑ Sreeja S., Sreeja S. "An in vitro study on antiproliferative and antiestrogenic effects of Boerhaavia diffusa L. extracts" Journal of Ethnopharmacology 2009 126:2 (221-225)
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↑ Sohni YR. Kaimal P. Bhatt RM.,"The antiamoebic effect of a crude drug formulation of herbal extracts against Entamoeba histolytica in vitro and in vivo". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 45(1):43-52, 1995 Jan.
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↑ Manu K.A., Kuttan G."Immunomodulatory activities of Punarnavine, an alkaloid from Boerhaavia diffusa" Immunopharmacology and Immunotoxicology 2009 31:3 (377-387)
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↑ «Boerhavia diffusa». Tropicos.org. Missouri Botanical Garden. Consultáu'l 6 de febreru de 2013.
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↑ Boerhavia diffusa en PlantList
Enllaces esternos
ibiblio * Caldecott, Todd (2006). Ayurveda: The Divine Science of Life. Elsevier/Mosby. ISBN 0-7234-3410-7. Contains a detailed monograph on Boerhavia diffusa (Punarnava) as well as a discussion of health benefits and usage in clinical practice. Available online at http://www.toddcaldecott.com/index.php/herbs/learning-herbs/323-punarnava
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Boerhavia diffusa: Brief Summary
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Boerhavia diffusa Boerhavia diffusa ye una especie de parrotal perteneciente a la familia Nyctaginaceae. Ye usada como planta melecinal poles sos propiedaes diurétiques. B. diffusa ta bien esvalixada, yá que se producen a lo llargo de la India, el Pacíficu y el sur d'Estaos Xuníos. Esta amplia gama esplicar pol so frutu pequeñu, que son bien pegañosos y crecen unos centímetros del suelu, nuna posición ideal pa enferronase a les pequeñes aves migratories que pasen pellí.
En Puni, India.
Un mozu
charrán aveséu adquirió daqué de fruta pegañoso de B. diffusa dempués de caminar al traviés d'elles.
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