MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT010 : Eriolaena hookeriana Wight & Arn. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 46 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In Churakund, Harisal | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Malvaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Bhondra-Dhaman G-Bhondar | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | - |
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| Description : | Shrubs or small trees, up to 10 m tall; herbaceous portions stellate-tomentose. laves 10 - 13 cm in diam., roundish to cordate, cordate at base, acuminate at apex, irregularly crenate-dentate, dotted with small tufts of stellate hairs above and finely rusty pubescent beneath, nerves 5 - 9 at base, prominent beneath; petioles 2 - 11 cm long, rather stout, stellate-tomentose. Flowers many, in axillary, peduncled cymes; peduncles up to 15 cm long, stout, stellate-hairy becoming glabrous with age; involucral bracts shorter than calyx, multisect, segments linear; pedicels up to 4 cm long. Sepals 1.5 - 2 x 0.2 - 0.3 cm, linear-lanceolate, often subfalcate, pubescent outside, stellate-hairy and glandular at base inside. petals 3 - 4 cm long, obovate, ca 5 mm broad towards the apex, claws densely pubescent with in. Staminal column 1.5 - 2 cm long, antheriferous throughout its length; filaments up to 1 cm long; anthers many-seriate. Ovary ca 5 mm long, stellate-hairy; styles 2 - 2.4 cm long, pubescent; stigmas 8 - 10-lobed. Capsules 6 - 10, up to 4 x 2 cm, ovoid to pyriform, pointed, woody, loculicidal, 10-valved, valves downy, tubercled or pitted or smooth, 6 - 19 mm long, winged above, glossy. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Antimicrobial, Anticancer, Wound healing | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | malvalic acid sterculic 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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