MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH023 : Corchorus fascicularis Lam. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 52 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Frequent throughout in stream, river beds and wet lands | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Tiliaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Chichura, Pat, Chanchu, Chevuna, Dirgha patra, Satiktaka, Kala saka | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Corchorus acutangulus auct. non Forsk. (1775) Lam. Corchorus fuscus Roxb. Corchorus oppositiflorus Hassk. |
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| Description : | Erect or spreading, (10-) 20-60 cm tall, much branched, annual herb. Stem and branches purple, pilose. Leaves 3-5-costate, costae hairy to almost glabrous, lanceolate to ovate, 2-9.5 cm long, 1-5 cm broad, oblique or obtuse at the base, serrate, basal serratures prolonged into setaceous appendages or not, glabrous except the hairy to glabrescent costae, acute; petiole 0.5-3(-4) cm long, purple, pilose; stipules setaceous, 5-7 mm long, pilose, purplish green. Cyme antiphyllous, very shortly pedunculate, mostly 2, rarely 3-flowered. Flowers golden yellow, c. 1 cm across, pedicel c. 2 mm long, jointed; bracts akin to stipules, 4-6 mm long, purple. Sepals linear-oblong, c. 4 mm long, hooded and awned at the apex, purple dotted outside, green within, glabrous. Petals obovate, 3.5-5 mm long, c. 3 mm broad, obtuse, hairy at the base. Stamens (12-) 30, filaments c. 3 mm long. Carpels 3; ovary oblong-cylindric, c. 1.5-2 mm long, minutely hairy, 3-loculed, truncate above; style 3-fid, c. 1.5 mm long, stigmas bilobed. Capsules solitary or paired, with 3 fairly stout wings, (10-) 15-25 mm long, c. 4-6 mm in diameter, truncate and terminating in 3, bifid, radiating, 3-7 mm long beaks at apex, 3-loculed, locules transversely septate or aseptate. Seeds blackish-brown, angular, rough, obliquely truncate at both ends. Fl. Per.: August-October. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Anemia, Improving memory, Intelligence, Aphrodisiac, Laxative etc. Anti-cancer(Wozniak et al., 2015) | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Beta-sitosterol Betulinic acid flavonoid glycoside Corchoroside-A Corchoroside-B Corchoroside-C Corchoroside-D Corchoroside-E Corchoroside-F Lupeol Quercetin Kaempferol Oleanolic acid 2- Methylanthraquinone and Fusidic acid. |
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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