MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH019 : Sida alba L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 38 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Open grasslands | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Malvaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | - | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Sida alnifolia var. obovata sensu Hu |
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| Description : | Erect undershrub, stellate pubescent. Leaves elliptic to obovate, 1-2 cm long, 0.5-1 cm broad; stipule filiform, c. 5 mm long; petiole 5-10 mm long. Flowers usually solitary, sometimes paired, pedicel 5-6 mm, in fruit 1-2 cm long. Calyx 5 lobed, 4-6 mm long; lobes 2-3 mm long 1-2 mm broad, triangular, acute-acuminate. Corolla yellow, slightly longer than calyx. Fruit depressed globose, pubescent above; mericarps same as in Sida yunnanensis Hu. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Dinda B, Das N, Dinda S, Dinda M and SilSharma I; "The genus Sida L. - A traditional medicine: Its ethnopharmacological, phytochemical and pharmacological data for commercial exploitation in herbal drugs industry"; J Ethnopharmacol (2015); 176: 135-76 PMID : 26497766 ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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