Flowering class: Dicot
Habit: Herb
Chenopodium album L.
🗒 Synonyms
synonym | Chenopodium album f. subhastatum Issler ex Murr |
synonym | Chenopodium album subsp. bernburgense Murr |
synonym | Chenopodium album subsp. collinsii Murr |
synonym | Chenopodium album subsp. densifoliatum Ludw. & Aellen |
synonym | Chenopodium album subsp. reticulatum (Aellen) Greuter & Burdet |
synonym | Chenopodium album subsp. subficifolium Murr |
synonym | Chenopodium album var. cymigerum W. D. J. Koch |
synonym | Chenopodium album var. dacoticum Aellen |
synonym | Chenopodium album var. stevensii Aellen |
synonym | Chenopodium glomerulosum Rchb. |
synonym | Chenopodium lobodontum H. Scholz |
synonym | Chenopodium paganum Rchb. |
synonym | Chenopodium reticulatum Aellen |
synonym | Chenopodium subficifolium (Murr) Druce |
synonym | Chenopodium subhastatum (Issler ex Murr) F. Dvorák |
🗒 Common Names
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📚 Overview
Description
Annual, 10-150 cm, usually erect, variously branched, ± grey farinose. Stems yellowish to green, green-striated, sometimes reddish or with red spots at leaf axils. Lower and medium leaves petiolate, blade usually 2-6(-10) cm, variously trullate, rhombic-ovate to lanceolate, clearly longer than broad, base narrowly to broadly cuneate, margins irregularly serrate to entire, often somewhat 3-lobed, teeth mostly acute, often unequal in size; uppermost leaves lanceolate, usually entire. Inflorescence a variable spiciform or cymosely branched panicle, mostly terminal. Perianth segments 5, dorsally keeled. Perianth falling with fruit. Pericarp thin, ± adherent. Seeds horizontal, black, 1.1-1.5 mm in diameter, somewhat ovate, margin weakly acute; testa with faint radial striae, otherwise almost smooth.
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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📚 Nomenclature and Classification
📚 Natural History
Life Cycle
Flowering & Fruiting: February-March
Komor, P. & Devi, O.S. 2016. Edible bioresources & livelihoods. Assam State Biodiversity Board, Guwahati. pp. 273
Cyclicity
Flowering and fruiting: Throughout the year
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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Flowering & fruiting : February to March.
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
Morphology
An erect herb usually coated with meaty substance, stems and inflorescence sometime tinged with purple or red. The leaves are variable, smaller upwards and lower one attaining to about 8 - 10 cm in length, pale green, oblong- lanceolate or rhomboid lanceolate, more or less toothed or lobulate. They are waxy-coated, un-wettable and mealy in appearance, with a whitish coat on the underside. The tiny flowers are radially symmetrical, bisexual, green in spikes and grow in small cymes on a dense branched inflorescence about 10¬40 cm long
Komor, P. & Devi, O.S. 2016. Edible bioresources & livelihoods. Assam State Biodiversity Board, Guwahati. pp. 273
An erect herb usually coated with meaty substance, stems and inflorescence sometime tinged with purple or red. Leaves variable, smaller upwards, lower one attaining 8-10 cm in length, pale green, oblong-lanceolate or rhomboid lanceolate, more or less toothed or lobulate. Flowers minute, bisexual, green in spikes.
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
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📚 Habitat and Distribution
General Habitat
Scrub jungles and degraded forests, also in the wastelands
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Wet places, river banks, cultivated lands
It is a common weed in cultivation. Occurs mainly during winter
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
Description
Global Distribution
India: Assam, Bihar, Kashmir, Gujarat, Maharastra, Manipur, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh; America, Australia, Malaysia, Africa, Europe
Local Distribution
Bongaigaon, Barak Valley
Global Distribution
Pantropical
Indian distribution
State - Kerala, District/s: Palakkad, Kottayam, Wayanad, Kozhikkode
Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi
Attributions | Dr. N Sasidharan (Dr. B P Pal Fellow), Kerala Forest Research Institute, Peechi |
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
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📚 Occurrence
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📚 Demography and Conservation
📚 Uses and Management
Uses
System of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda
Folk medicine
Siddha
Unani
Traditional chinese medicine
Leaves are consumed as vegetable due to its rich contents of minerals and nitrogenous compounds
Nutritional Value
Energy 32kcal; carbohydrate 5 gm; protein 3.2gm; total fat 0.70gm; dietary fibre 2.1 gm; omega-3 fatty acid 32mg; omega-6 fatty acid 274gm; vitamin C 37 mg; niacin 0.20mg; riboflavin 0.3mg; thiamine 0.1mg; sodium 265mg; potassium 288 mg; calcium 258 mg; copper 0.2mg; magnesium 23 mg & zinc 0.3mg, per 100gm
Komor, P. & Devi, O.S. 2016. Edible bioresources & livelihoods. Assam State Biodiversity Board, Guwahati. pp. 273
System Of Medicines Used In
Ayurveda, Folk medicine, Unani, Siddha, Traditional chinese medicine
FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants: http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=516
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Status | UNDER_CREATION |
Licenses | CC_BY |
References |
The leaves are eaten as pot herb, with fishes etc. It is rich in minerals and other nitrogenous compounds
Wild edible plants of Assam. by Sri Brahmananda Patiri and Sri Ananta Borah, published by the Director Forest Communication, Forest Department, Assam. Curated for upload by Pranjal Mahananda.
Folklore
The plant is generally consumed by local people for its rich contents of Vitamin A, Calcium, and Potassium and phosphorous. In Ayurveda, it is said that pregnant women should not eat bathua as it may result in miscarriages. Very useful in treating kidney stone and also reduces formation of stone. It is also used for inner and external swellings, jaundice, irregular period, curing infections after delivery, anemia and for blood purification
Komor, P. & Devi, O.S. 2016. Edible bioresources & livelihoods. Assam State Biodiversity Board, Guwahati. pp. 273
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📚 Information Listing
References
- Chenopodium album L., Sp. Pl. 219. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 3. 1886; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1181(827). 1925; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 337. 1989; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 674. 2009.
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=516
Information Listing > References
- Chenopodium album L., Sp. Pl. 219. 1753; Hook. f., Fl. Brit. India 5: 3. 1886; Gamble, Fl. Pres. Madras 1181(827). 1925; Antony, Syst. Stud. Fl. Kottayam Dist. 337. 1989; Ratheesh Narayanan, Fl. Stud. Wayanad Dist. 674. 2009.
- D K Ved, Suma Tagadur Sureshchandra, Vijay Barve, Vijay Srinivas, Sathya Sangeetha, K. Ravikumar, Kartikeyan R., Vaibhav Kulkarni, Ajith S. Kumar, S.N. Venugopal, B. S. Somashekhar, M.V. Sumanth, Noorunissa Begum, Sugandhi Rani, Surekha K.V., and Nikhil Desale. 2016. (envis.frlht.org / frlhtenvis.nic.in). FRLHT's ENVIS Centre on Medicinal Plants, Bengaluru. http://envis.frlht.org/plant_details.php?disp_id=516
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🐾 Taxonomy
Root | Root |
Kingdom | Plantae |
Phylum | Tracheophyta |
Class | Equisetopsida C. Agardh |
Order | Caryophyllales Juss. ex Bercht. & J. Presl |
Family | Amaranthaceae |
Genus | Chenopodium |
Species | Chenopodium album L. |
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