MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MH024 : Corchorus olitorius L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 53 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | On Moist lands grasses and in fields | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Herbs | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Tiliaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Jute, Nalta jute, tossa jute, Jew's mallow, Pat, Pat-sag, Mithapat, Motichhunchh, Banpat | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Corchorus brachycarpus Guill. & Perr. |
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| Description : | Annual, suberect, 50-60 cm tall herb. Stem woody, with scaly bark, glabrous. Leaves 3-costate, elliptic-oblong or lanceolate to narrowly ovate, 1.5-6 cm long, 0.5-2.0 cm broad, glabrous, serrate, basal serratures not prolonged into filiform appendages, obtuse; petiole 3-15 mm long, hirsute; stipules subulate-filiform, c. 5 mm long. Cyme a fascicle of 2-5 (-8) flowers, antiphyllous, very shortly pedunculate. Flowers yellow, 5-6 mm across; bracts minute. Sepals linear-oblong, c. 1.5-2.5 mm long, apiculate. Petals oblong-obovate, as long as sepals. Stamens as many as or twice the number of petals, filaments c. 1.5-2 mm long. Carpels 3; ovary oblong-ovate to linear, 3-loculed, hairy; style short, stigma capitate. Capsules 2-5(-8) in each fascicle, sessile, 1-1.5 cm long, with 1-2 mm long entire beak, somewhat triangular, pubescent, 3-loculed, locules without transverse septa. Seeds wedge shaped, c. 1.5 mm long, angular, black, obliquely truncate at both ends. Fl. Per.: August-September. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | antifertility, anti-convulsive, and purgative agent, Anti-cancer(Wozniak et al., 2015) | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Strophanthidin Strophanthidin Trioxide Coroloside Deglycocoroloside Chorchoroside Chorchoroside B Olotoriside Canarigenin Chorchorusoside A Chorchorusoside B Chorchorusoside C Chorchorusoside D Chorchorusoside E Triterpenes: Corosin Ursolic acid Corosolic acid Oxoorocin Phenolics: Astragalin Isoquercetin Quercetin-3-galactoside Quercetin-3-(6-malonylglucoside) Quercetin-3-(6-malonylgalactoside) Circhorune Scopolin Chlorogenic acid Oleanolic acid Beta-sitosterol Stigmasterol |
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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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