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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MC071 : Getonia floribunda Roxb.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Myrtales
Family : Combretaceae - Rangoon creeper family
Genus : Getonia
Species : Getonia floribunda Roxb.
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Climbers  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Combretaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Paper Flower Climber • Bengali: Gaichho lata • Hindi: Kokoray • Kannada: enjarigekubsa, marasadaboli • Konkani: uski • Malayalam: pullani, pullanji • Marathi: jhaal, Ukshi • Oriya: dhonoti • Sanskrit: shvetadhataki, susavi • Tamil: pullanti valli • Telugu: murugudutige
 
Synonym : Calycopteris floribunda (Roxb.) Lam.
Buckleya joan Makino
Calycopteris coccineum Lam.
Calycopteris nutans (Roxb.) Kurz
Calycopteris nutans var. glabriuscula Kurz
Calycopteris nutans var. roxburghii Kurz
Combretum sericeum Wall. ex C. B. Clarke
Getonia nitida Roth
Getonia nutans Roxb.
Description : Lianas to 10 m or more tall. Branchlets densely pilose. Petiole 8-12 mm, densely pilose; leaf blade green adaxially, 5-15 × 3-7 cm, leathery, abaxially densely dark scaly and pilose, adaxially glabrescent but persistently pilose on midvein and lateral veins; lateral veins in 5-8(-10) pairs. Panicles to 30 cm or more; peduncle and rachis densely pilose; bracts 2-3 mm, densely pilose. Calyx tube 7-10 mm at anthesis, abaxially densely pilose; lobes 2-3.5 mm at anthesis, both surfaces densely pilose. Filaments 2-3 mm. Fruit 18-23 mm including calyx lobes, densely pilose; persistent calyx lobes 10-14 mm, longitudinally 3-veined with reticulate veins between, both surfaces pilose, especially on veins, or glabrescent, abaxially sparsely dark scaly. Fl. Mar-Apr, fr. May-Jun. 2n = 26.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The leaves are bitter, astringent, laxative, anthelmintic, depurative, diaphoretic and febrifuge. They are useful in intestinal worms, colic, leprosy, malarial fever, dysentery, ulcers and vomiting. The fruits are useful in jaundice, ulcers, pruritus and skin diseases.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals :
Reference : ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book PMID :