MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS008 : Abutilon pannosum (G. Forst.) Schltdl. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 31 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Mostly in Fields on richer soils | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Malvaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Kasli, Ragged Mallow • Marathi: Karandi • Gujarati: Makhmali kapat | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Abutilon asiaticum Guill. & Perr. Abutilon benadirense Mattei. Abutilon glaucum (Cav.) G. Don. Abutilon glaucum (Cav.) Sweet. Abutilon lanatum Husain & Baquar. Abutilon malirianum Husain & Baquar. Abutilon muticum (DC.) Sweet. Abutilon tomentosum (Roxb.) Wight & Arn. Sida asiatica Wall. Sida glauca Cav. Sida mutica Del. ex DC. Sida mutica Delile. Sida pannosa G. Forst. Sida polycarpa C. Sm. Sida tomentosa Roxb. Sida tomentosa Roxb. Sida villosa Wall. |
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| Description : | Erect undershrubs or shrubs, about 1-3 m tall. Stems and branches velvety tomentose with simple short stellate hairs. Leaves simple, alternate, orbicular, about 2-14 x 1.8-13.5 cm across, base cordate, margins irregularly dentate, apex acute to shallow acuminate, densely pubescent with simple stellate hairs both above and beneath, veins about 7-9, petiole, tomentose with simple stellate hairs, about 1-6 cm long, stipules linear, pubescent, caducous, about 3-6 mm long. Inflorescence usually axillary or terminal, solitary or racemes, by the reduction of the uppermost leaves. Flowers bisexual, pedicel slender, jointed in the upper half, stellate pubescent, about 1-4 cm long, epicalyx absent, calyx 5 lobed, campanulate or cup shaped, base connate, valvate, divided from middle, lobes ovate, apex acute, densely pubescent with simple and stellate hairs outside, simple long hairs inside, about 8-15 x 5-8 mm across, corolla large, 5, yellow, petals obovate, glabrous, about 1-2 x 0.8-1.5 cm across. Stamens usually shorter than petals, base wide, stellate hairy, about 5-8 mm long, anthers basifixed, usually clustered. Ovary superior, 5-20 locular, ovules 2-9 per carpel, style branched 5-40, filiform to clavate, stigma capitate. Fruit schizocarp, subglobular, about 1 cm across, depressed at apex, usually black when mature, with 20-25 mericarps, reniform, margins dense with stellate hairs, apex bidentate, dehiscent. Seed 2-3, reniform, about 1.5 mm across, smooth, glabrous or shortly pubescent. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The plant contains mucilage. It is used to treat Diarrhea, dysentery and stomach troubles. The flowers were used to increase semen in men(Raamchandran, 2007). | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Gallic acid 2-heptanone alpha-tocopherol beta-tocopherol Gamma-Tocopherol trans-phytol gamma-sitosterol stigmast-5-en-3-ol 1, 2-hexadecene epoxide Pentadecanal neophytadiene Triacontanol tetratriacont-21-ol-12-one beta-sitosterol erythrodiol Betulin triacontan-1-ol -amyrin lupenone |
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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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