MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT012 : Grewia tiliifolia Vahl. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 58 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Common throughout | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Malvaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Dhaman, Baringa,K- Dhamsi, G- Khesla | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Grewia arborea Roxb. ex Rottl. Grewia asiatica var. vestita Wall. ex Mast. Grewia inaequalis Blume. Grewia leptopetala Brandis. Grewia rotunda C. Y. Wu ex H. T. Chang. Grewia subinaequalis DC. Grewia tiliifolia var. argentea Burrett. Grewia tiliifolia var. leptopetala (Braudis) T. Cooke. Grewia variabilis Wall. Microcos lateriflora L. |
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| Description : | Large trees, bark dark brown or greyish-brown, rough, vertically striated; blaze brownish-red, fibrous, streaked; branchlets stellate-tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules 7-10 mm, lateral, auricled; petiole 8-35 mm, stout, swollen tipped, pubescent; lamina 6-36 x 3-24 cm, broadly ovate or obliquely ovate to round, base obliquely cordate or subcordate, apex acute, margin double serrate or crenate-serrate, glabrescent above and hoary pubescent beneath, coriaceous, 5-7-ribbed from base, prominent, lateral nerves 3-6 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers bisexual, yellow, in axillary umbels; peduncle 1.5-2 cm long; sepals 5, pubescent; petals 5, yellow, half the length of sepals, entire or notched, densely tomentose outside; stamens many, free, inserted on a glandular torus; gland densely villous on the margin; ovary superior, globose, hirsute, 2-4-celled, ovules 2-many; style subulate; stigma obscurely lobed, recurved. Fruit a drupe, globose to subglobose, reddish-purple, 2-lobed, sparsely hairy. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Antioxidant, Antiproliferative, Anticancer, pitta and kapha, burning sensation, hyperdipsia, rhinopathy, ulcers, skin diseases, haematemesis and general debility (Warrier et al., 1995) jaundice, throat pain, wound healing, urinary infection, dysentery The bark is astringent, sweet, acrid, refrigerant, oleaginous, expectorant, antipruritic, vulnerary, constipating, emetic, styptic, aphrodisiac and tonic. The barks and roots of G. tiliaefolia are used to treat skin diseases, hypertension, ulcers,Diarrhea, in?ammatory bowel diseases,pruritis, jaundice, burning sensation, thirst,throat complaints, biliousness, dysentery,infectious diseases, and diseases of the nose and of the blood | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | D-erythro-2-hexenoic acid beta-lactone Gulonic acid beta-lactone Lupeol betulin Beta-sitosterol Daucosterol |
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Omesh Bajpai, Jitendra Pandey and Lal Babu Chaudhary; "Ethnomedicinal Uses of Tree Species by Tharu Tribes in the Himalayan Terai Region of India"; Research Journal of Medicinal Plant (2016); 10(1): 19-41 PMID : ~ Patil, HM and Bhaskar, VV; "Medicinal uses of plnats by tribal medicine men of Nandurbar district in Maharashtra"; Natural Product Radiance (2006); 5(2): 125-130 PMID : |
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