MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT084 : Ficus arnottiana (Miq.) Miq. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 480 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Amongst rocks in valleys | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Common | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Fabaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | K- Gadani Tipli, Indian Rock Fig, rock pipal, waved-leaved fig tree, wild pipal • Hindi: bassari, palhi, paras pipal, pilkhan, pimpli • Marathi: payar, kadak payer, pipli • Tamil: kotiyarasu • Malayalam: amakanniyam, kallal, kallarayal • Telugu: kallaravi, konda ravi • Kannada: kaadaarasa, kadu aswatha, kalla aswattha • Sanskrit: parisah, plavaka, plavanga | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Ficus aegrophylla Hort. Schoenb. ex Miq. Ficus caulobotrya (Miq.) Miq. Ficus populeaster Desf. Ficus populifolia Wall. Urostigma arnottianum Miq. Urostigma caulobotryum Miq. Urostigma cordifolium Dalz. & Gibs. Urostigma courtallense Miq. |
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| Description : | Deciduous independent trees, to 10 m high, aerial roots absent; bark surface grey-brown, smooth, tuberculate-lenticellate; blaze pink; latex milky. Leaves simple, alternate spiral; stipules 3-5 cm long, lateral, reddish-green, glabrous, cauducous, leaving annular scars; petiole 3-10 cm long, slender, red, not articulated, glabrous; lamina 6-20 x 5-13 cm, broadly ovate, base deeply cordate, apex caudate-acuminate, margin entire, slightly undulate, glabrous, coriaceous; 5-7-ribbed from base, lateral nerves 5-8 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers unisexual; inflorescence a syconia, in axillary pairs or crowded near the apex, sessile or shortly pedunculate, globose, glabrous, orifice plane; bracts 3, 1 x 2-2.5 mm, ovate, thin, eventually cauducous; flowers of 4 kinds; tepals red, more or less gamophyllous, 3-4 lobed, fleshy; male flowers sessile, around the orifice and sparsely scattered in the interior of the syconia; stamens 1, subsessile; anthers 2-celled, ovate-oblong, dehiscence longitudinally; female flowers sessile, sparsely scattered in the interior of syconia, cream, somewhat reddish on stylar side; ovary superior, depressed globose; style filiform; stigma flat gall flowered stalked; neutar flowers few. Synconium yellowish-brown when ripe; 5-7 mm across; achenes smooth. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | anti-ulcer, astringent, aphrodisiac, demulcent, depurative, emollient; It is also useful against inflammation, Diarrhea, diabetes, burning sensation, leprosy, scabies, wounds and skin diseases. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Beta-sitosterol friedelin |
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Shubhangi Pawar and D A Patil; "Observations on folkloric medicinal plants of Jalgaon district, Maharashtra"; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (2004); 3(4): 437-442 PMID : |
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