MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS015 : Urena sinuata L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 44 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Malvaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | K_ Jaljatang, Burr Mallow, caesarweed, Congo jute, hibiscus burr, pink burr, pink Chinese burr, urena burr • Hindi: bachita, gataya, lapetua, unga • Manipuri: sampakpi • Marathi: van bhendi, jungli-kapashi • Tamil: thuththippuntuvakai, ottuttutti • Malayalam: uram, uren, vatto • Telugu: nalla benda, peddabhenda • Kannada: otte • Bengali: okhra • Oriya: nalu kuro • Konkani: tupkate • Sanskrit: atibala, bala | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Urena aculeata Mill. Urena morifolia DC. Urena muricata DC. Urena paradoxa Kunth. Urena swartzii DC. |
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| Description : | Erect, woody perennial herb or small shrub, up to 2 m tall, the stems minutely stellate pubescent or glabrate. Leaves are simple, alternate, and broadly ovate, up to 6 cm long, palmately lobed or deeply pinnatifid, the lobes rounded or obtuse, the margin serrate, the upper surface rough and the lower surface grayish. Flowers are small, showy, hibiscus-like, solitary on short stalks in leaf axils, 5 petals, rose or pink, darker at the base, rounded, up to 1.5 cm long; stamens fused into an obvious pink column beneath a 5-lobed style. Fruits are small, barbed, spiny capsules, 6-8 mm in diameter, containing one dark brown seed. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Roots are considered emollient, refrigerant and maturant; used as an external application for lumbago. Leaves are prescribed in inflammation of the intestine and the bladder; decoction is given in colic. Infusion of the flowers is used in bronchitis. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | quercetagetin-6,7-O-dimethylether-3'-alpha-D-gluco-pyranoside quercetagetin-6,7-O-dimethylether-4'-alpha-D-glucopyranoside quercetagetin-6,7-O-dimethylether-3'-beta-D-glucopyranoside |
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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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