MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT092 : Eriolaena quinquelocularis (Wight & Arn.) Wight |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | - |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Sterculiaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Bothi • Marathi: Bothi, • Tamil: Malamtutti, Vattanunnu • Malayalam: Vetinar • Kannada: Kondigida, Gomajjige, Kattale • Konkani: Bujaridamu • Assamese: Bhawat | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Microchlaena flavescens Garcke ex Mast. (Unresolved) Microchlaena quinquelocularis Wight & Arn. Wallichia quinquclocularis Steud. (Unresolved) Wallichia quinquelocularis (Wight & Arn.) Steud. |
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| Description : | Trees, to 10 m tall; bark gray-white. Branchlets sparsely stellate hairy when young. Petiole 1.5-3 cm; leaf blade round or broadly ovate, 5-8 cm in diam., thickly papery, abaxially densely white stellate puberulent, adaxially sparsely stellate puberulent, base cordate, margin obtusely dentate, apex obtuse or acute. Inflorescence cymose, terminal or axillary, up to 9 cm; peduncle robust, often 3-flowered. Pedicels shorter than flowers; epicalyx lobes entire, ovate or elliptic-ovate. Sepals 5, linear-lanceolate, ca. 2 cm, abaxially densely yellowish brown stellate tomentulose, hairs shorter adaxially, glandular at base. Petals 5, yellow, as long as sepals, apex obtuse, with broad stipe. Stamens as long as petals; stigmas 6-8, curved outward. Capsule long ellipsoid, 3-4.5 × ca. 2.5 cm, abaxially densely yellow-brown puberulent and mealy, 5-10-valved, not verrucose, valve loculicidal, lower 1/2 densely white villous, apex acute. Seeds 8 in each valve, arranged in 2 lines, ca. 2.5 cm including wing, wing membranous, oblong, apex obtuse, 1.3-1.8 cm. Fl. May. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Mirgi (Epilepsy); The roots were made into a paste with water and given against excess bleeding during menstruation. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ Londhe AN, Watve AV and Ansari MY; "Additions to the flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; J. Econ. Taxon. Bot. (2002); 26(2): 385-395 PMID : |
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