Medicinal plant details
Curculigo orchioidesGaertn.
(Talamuli)
| Common name | Talamuli |
| Habit | Herb |
| Habitat | Moist deciduous forests, greenlands, hilly areas, roadsides and also in the plains |
| Parts used | Rhizome |
Synonyms
| Sr. No. | Synonyms |
|---|---|
| 1 | Hypoxis dulcis Steud. ex Baker |
| 2 | Hypoxis minor Seem. |
| 3 | Hypoxis orchioides (Gaertn.) Kurz |
| 4 | Curculigo brevifolia Dryand. ex W.T.Aiton |
| 5 | Curculigo firma Kotschy & Peyr. |
| 6 | Curculigo malabarica Wight |
| 7 | Curculigo pauciflora Zipp. ex Span. |
| 8 | Curculigo petiolata Royle |
| 9 | Curculigo stans Labill. |
| 10 | Franquevillea major Zoll. ex Kurz |
| 11 | Gethyllis acaulis Blanco |
| 12 | Curculigo orchioides var. minor Benth. |
| 13 | Curculigo densa W.Bull |
Taxonomical information
| Kingdom | Viridiplantae |
| Phylum | Streptophyta |
| Class | Magnoliopsida |
| Order | Asparagales |
| Family | Hypoxidaceae |
| Genus | Curculigo |
| Species | Curculigo orchioides Gaertn. |
Vernacular names
| Sanskrit | Bhumitila |
| English | Golden eye grass, Ginseng, Black musali |
| Hindi | Syahmusali, Kalimusli |
| Kannada | Neltal, Neltathigodde, Nelatale, Nelatelegadde |
| Marathi | Kali musali, Bhuimaddi |
| Malayalam | Nilappenea |
| Bengali | Talmalu, Tallur |
| Tamil | Nilappanai |
| Telugu | Nel tadigadda |
| Urdu | Musali Siyah, Kali Musali |
Morphology
Small herb, rhizome up to 15 cm long, 0.5-0.8 cm thick, straight, cylindrical, oblong and perennial. Leaves are sessile or subsessile, 10-15X2 cm long in size, lanceolate, glabrous, acuminate at the apex, entire, pilicate in the bud and clustered. Flowers are yellow, 1.5 cm across, tube 3 cm long, narrow, sparsely pilose. Stamens are 6, filaments erect, short 2 mm long, adnate to the base of perianth lobes. Ovary inferior, ovules are many, villous. Fruit is capsule about 1.5-2 cm long, oblong capsule, terete. Seeds are 1 to many, oblong, black, globose, glossy, beaked.
Distribution
Plant is distributed in sub-tropical Himalayas, Khasi hills, Bengal, Assam, Konkan, Kanara, Western peninsula, Chennai and Kanyakumari
Medicinal uses
Piles, disease due to vata dosha, debility due to chest injury, nutritional disorder
References
| 1 | Kumari, S., and Singh, D. C. (2017). Musali-a divine herb with its medicinal uses. Int J Ayurveda Pharma Res, 5, 84-88. |