author(s) : Khadiga M. Ahmed, Ibrahim A. El-Garf
and Abdel-Fattah M. Rizk
Synonym
Commelina benghalensis L., Sp. Pl., ed. 1, 41 (1753); Boulos, Fl. Egypt 4: 123 (2005).
Names: Benghal dayflower, Tropical spiderwort
family name
COMMELINACEAE
genus name
Commelina
GC/MS analysis of the methanol exract of the leaves, revealed the presence of the following compounds: oxiraneethanol, 1.12; nonanoic acid, 1.59; 3-isopropoxy-1,1,1,7,7,7-hexamethyl-3,5,5-tris (trimethylsiloxy) ..
Commelina benghalensis is used in the Indian subcontinent as a folk medicine for the treatment of leprosy, headache, fever, constipation, jaundice and snake bite.
The plant extracts exhibited antibacterial (Khan et al., 2011), hepatoprotective (Sambrekar et al., 2009; Sambrekar and Patil, 2013), antioxidant (Prakash et al., 2014), 15-lipoxygenase inhibitiory activity (Alaba and Chichioco-Hernandez, 2014), analgesic, anti-infammatory (Hossain et al., 2014) anticancer (Hasan et al., 2009),.
It possesses anti-neoplastic properties and induces apoptosis in JT cells (Mbazima et al., 2008; Lebogo et al., 2014).
location
egypt