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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MT079 : Glochidion heyneanum (Wight & Arn.) Wight

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 466  
Class : Equisetopsida
Order : Malpighiales
Family : Euphorbiaceae - Spurge family
Genus : Glochidion
Species : Glochidion heyneanum (Wight & Arn.) Wight
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Tree  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Euphorbiaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : K- Kolia, Velvety Melon Featherfoil, downy melon featherfoil • Malayalam: cathakkatanv • Nepali: kaalikaath
 
Synonym : Phyllanthus velutinus (Wight) Müll.Arg.
Bradleia ovata Wall., nom. nud.
Diasperus asperus (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze.
Diasperus heyneanus (Wight) Kuntze.
Diasperus nepalensis (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze.
Diasperus velutinus (Wight) Kuntze.
Eriococcus glaucescens Zoll.
Glochidion asperum (Müll.Arg.) Bedd.
Glochidion nepalense (Müll.Arg.) Kurz.
Glochidion velutinum Wight.
Gynoon heyneanum Wight & Arn.
Phyllanthus asperus Müll.Arg.
Phyllanthus heyneanus (Wight) Müll.Arg., nom. illeg.
Phyllanthus nepalensis Müll.Arg.
Description : Tomentose trees, to 7 m high, bark brown, rough; branchlets brown Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipules lateral; petiole 3-6 mm, slender, tomentose; lamina 3-15 x 1.5-8 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-ovate, base acute or oblique, apex acute, obtuse or acuminate at apex, margin entire, coriaceous, densely to sparsely puberulous to glabrous above and velvety tomentose beneath; lateral nerves 4-8 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers unisexual, yellow, solitary or few together in axillary clusters; male flowers: pedicels 5-14 mm long, filiform, tepals 3-3, 1.5-4 x 0.8-2 mm, oblong, lanceolate or oblanceolate, tomentose; stamens 3, 1-2 mm long, connate by their connectives in a column; connectives produced; female flowers: pedicel 1-5 mm long, filiform tomentose; tepals 3+3, oblong, ovate, triangular, lanceolate or linear, densely tomentose; ovary superior, 1-1.5 mm across, subglobose, 3-6 locular; ovules 2 in each cell; style 1-3 mm long, columnar to clavate or occasionally obconic or sometimes free and forming globose mass of connivent lobes; apical lobes 3-6, orbicular, elliptic, oblong or triangular often bilobulate. Fruit a capsule 3-5 x 6-12 mm, depressed, deeply lobed with bilobulate lobes, tomentose; seeds 5-7, 2 x 2.5 mm, grey, smooth; pedicels 5-10 mm long.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Root in snake bite.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : rotundic acid
Globlin A
Glochidioside
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 :