Plant Profile
Herb descriptions
Botany
Binomial nomenclature
Morinda pubescens
Scientific Name and Description
Morinda pubescens Sm.
Herb Family
Plant type
Shrub
Plant Synonyms
Plant Synonyms
M. tinctoria Roxb.,
M. tomentosa Heyne ex Roth.,
M. tinctoria Roxb. var,
tomentosa (Heyne ex Roth),
M. coreia Buch.-Ham.
M. tomentosa Heyne ex Roth.,
M. tinctoria Roxb. var,
tomentosa (Heyne ex Roth),
M. coreia Buch.-Ham.
Plant Names - Common - Regional - Vernacular
| Hindi | aal, acc, ach, al, kalmi |
| Kannada | aalum, ainshe, alam, haladi paavate, haladipavete, irshe, kadukumla, maddi, molagu, mulgal, tagatemara |
| Malayalam | cadapilva, karrapitalavam, manjanatthi, manjanatti, mannanarri, mannappavitta, pavetta, pavitta |
| Marathi | ahi, ak, al, aseti, bartundi, nagkura, suranji |
| Sanskrit | akshikiphala, indivarah, paphanah |
| Tamil | manjanathi, manjanatti, manjanuna, manjavatti, mannanatti, mannanunai, nuna, nunaa |
| Telugu | bandamaddi, bundamaddi, chekka, maaluga chettu, maddi, maddi chettu, maddicettu, mogali, mogilli, moluga, molugu, sekka, tagaree, tagaroo, thogara, togar-mogilli, togara, togaramogali, togaru, togarumogali |
Plants Medicinal Value
Medicinal Systems
Ayurved
Siddha
Folk
Herb usable parts
Roots
Leaves
Fruits
Ethnopharmacology use
Mussaenda frondosa L. Shrub Leaves To induce sound sleep General Pushpangadan and Atal 1984
References
Literature
Literature
Pushpangadan and Atal 1984
Flora of Madhya Pradesh Vol I Author - D.M.Verma, N.P.Balakrishnan, R.D.Dixit
Flora of Bankura District(West Bengal) Author - Sanyal M.N.
Flora of Rajasthan Vol. 1 Author - B.V.Shetty & V.Singh
The Flora of the Gulf of Mannar Author - P. Daniel & P. Umamaheswari
Flora of Maharashtra State (Dicotyledons) Volume 2 Author - N.P.Singh, P.Lakshminarasimhan, S.Karthikeyan & P.V. Prasanna
FLORA OF RAJASTHAN Author - KUNDAN K SHARMA & SHIVA SHARMA
Flora of Srikakulam District (Andhra Pradesh) Author - Rolla Seshagiri Rao, S.Hara Sriramulu
Flora of Gujarat State Vol 1 Author - G.L.Shah
The Flora of Orissa Vol II Author - Saxena H.O.,Brahmam M.
The National Medicinal Plants Board (NMPB), Department of AYUSH
Foundation for Revitalisation of Local Health Traditions (FRLHT)