MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS020 : Grewia hirsuta Vahl |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 57 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Along roadsides | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Tiliaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Kukurbicha • Assamese: huktapata, hukta-pata • Bengali: kukurbicha • Hindi: kakarundah, kukurbicha, phrongli • Kannada: udipe, dadachelu, gandaudipe, chikkudipe • Khasi: soh synting • Marathi: govli • Oriya: kakarolim • Sanskrit: gudasarkara, nagabala • Tamil: kalunnu, tavidu, tavadu, tavuttai • Telugu: chimachipuru, jibilike, chitti jana, jibilika | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Grewia longifolia Buch.-Ham. Grewia montana Koen. ex Wight & Arn. Grewia pilosa Roxb. Grewia roxburghii G. Don. Grewia salvifolia Wall. Grewia saxatilis Buch.-Ham. Grewia sulcoria Buch.-Ham. Grewia tomentosa Roxb. ex Wight & Arn. Grewia trichodes Voigt. |
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| Description : | Undershrubs, branchlets tawny pubescent. Leaves 6 x 2.5 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, finely serrate, obtuse apex, oblique, puberulus above, densely tomentose below; petiole to 5 mm, tomentose. Cymes axillary, peduncles 1-3, to 1 cm, tomentose; buds globose, tomentose; bracts and bracteoles 3 mm, lanceolate; sepals 6 mm, oblong, tomentose; petals 2 mm, ovate, pubescent below; staminal filaments pubescent at base. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Vata-pitta shamak, used for heart disease, cough, wounds and dyspnoea (root); in Diarrhea and dysentery (drupes); heart disease, fever (plant). leaves are useful in nose and eye diseases, anthelmintic. The root is astringent to the bowel; useful in cholera, hydrophobia, kidney pain, piles, anthelmintic. Leaves and fruits are purgative, expectorants, carminative, abortifaciant, galactagogue; useful in splenic enlargement, eye troubles, piles, rheumatism pain in joints and in breasts. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Stem: beta-sittosterol, alpha-amyrin, beta-amyrine and foradol | |||||||||||||
| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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