''Curculigo orchioides'' (commonly called golden eye-grass, xian mao, weevil-wort,
कालो मुस्ली (in Nepal) black musli, Kali musli, or Kali Musali) is an endangered flowering plant species in the genus ''
Curculigo
''Curculigo'' is a flowering plant genus in the family Hypoxidaceae, first described in 1788. It is widespread across tropical regions of Asia, Africa, Australia, and the Americas.
Curculin is a sweet protein that was discovered and isolated in ...
''. It is native to Nepal,
China
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,
Japan
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, the
Indian subcontinent
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,
Papuasia
Papuasia is a Level 2 botanical region defined in the World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD). It lies in the southwestern Pacific Ocean, in the Melanesia ecoregion of Oceania and Tropical Asia.
It comprises the f ...
, and
Micronesia
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.
Names
''C. orchidoides'' is known as ''Nilappana'' (നിലപ്പന) meaning ground palm in
Malayalam
Malayalam (; , ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Puducherry (Mahé district) by the Malayali people. It is one of 22 scheduled languages of India. Malayalam was des ...
, କୁଆକେନ୍ଦା in
Odiya
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* Odia people in Odisha, India
* Odia language, an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family
* Odia alphabet, a writing system used for the Odia languag ...
, ତାଳମୂଳୀ in
Bengali
Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to:
*something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia
* Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region
* Bengali language, the language they speak
** Bengali alphabet, the w ...
-Tallur, and நிலப்பனை in
Tamil
Tamil may refer to:
* Tamils, an ethnic group native to India and some other parts of Asia
** Sri Lankan Tamils, Tamil people native to Sri Lanka also called ilankai tamils
**Tamil Malaysians, Tamil people native to Malaysia
* Tamil language, nati ...
.
Chemical compounds
From ''C. orchidoides'', several chemical compounds of the
curculigoside class including
curculigoside A,
B,
C and
D and
curculigine A and
D have been isolated.
References
External links
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orchioides
Plants described in 1788
Flora of Asia
Flora of Papuasia
Flora of the Northwestern Pacific
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