Megacarpia polyandra is a robust perennial herbaceous member of the family Brassicaceae. The plant is known as Barmola in the Indian traditional medicine system and its rhizomes or roots are considered to be the medicinally important. Megacarpaea polyandra is the only species in the Brassicaceae with flowers having more than six stamens. The status of the plant has become vulnerable due to heavy and unsustainable extraction from the wild. Hence, the wild harvest of the species has been banned in India. Although cultivation technology has been worked out no commercial cultivation has been reported from any corner of India.