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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MT090 : Ficus virens W. T. Aiton

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 486  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Rosales
Family : Moraceae - Mulberry family
Genus : Ficus
Species : Ficus virens var. virens
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Tree  
Plant's Current Status : Common  
Plant Family : Fabaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Pakar, Pakhari, Phepar, K- Papri, G-Pipri, White Fig • Hindi: Pilkhan, Pakhad • Manipuri: Ching Heibong • Marathi: Bassari, Gandhaumbara • Tamil: Kurugatti • Malayalam: Cherala • Telugu: Badijuvvi, Jatti • Kannada: Kari-basari, juvvi • Gujarati: Pepri • Sanskrit: Plaksa
 
Synonym : Ficus ampla Kunth & Bouche.
Ficus apiculata (Miq.) Miq.
Ficus carolinensis Warb.
Ficus caulobotrya var. fraseri (Miq.) Miq.
Ficus cunninghamii (Miq.) Miq.
Ficus glabella Bl.
Ficus glabella var. nesophila (Miq.) K. Schum.
Ficus infectoria Roxb.
Ficus infectoria var. aegeirophylla (Miq.) Miq.
Ficus infectoria var. cunninghamii (Miq.) Domin.
Ficus infectoria var. forbesii King.
Ficus infectoria var. fraseri (Miq.) Domin.
Ficus infectoria var. lambertiana (Miq.) King.
Ficus infectoria var. psychotriifolia (Miq.) Domin.
Ficus infectoria var. wightiana (Wall. ex Miq.) King.
Ficus infrafoliacea Buch.-Ham. ex Sm.
Ficus lacor var. cunninghamii (Miq.) Barrett.
Ficus lacor var. lambertiana (Miq.) Barrett.
Ficus lambertiana (Miq.) Miq.
Ficus mariannensis Merr.
Ficus monticola Miq.
Ficus nesophila (Miq.) F. Müll.
Ficus nitentifolia S. Moore.
Ficus pilhasi Sm.
Ficus prolixa var. carolinensis (Warb.) Fosb.
Ficus psychotriifolia (Miq.) Miq.
Ficus saxophila var. sublanceolata Miq.
Ficus scandens Buch.-Ham.
Ficus syringifolia C. Fraser ex C. Moore.
Ficus tenuistipula Merr.
Ficus terminalioides Griff.
Ficus terminalis Heyne ex Roth.
Ficus timorensis (Miq.) Miq.
Ficus virens sublanceolata (Miq.) Corner.
Ficus virens var. glabella (Bl.) Corner.
Ficus virens var. wightiana (Miq.) M.R.Almeida.
Ficus wightiana Wall.
Urostigma accedens Miq.
Urostigma aegeirophyllum Miq.
Urostigma apiculatum Miq.
Urostigma canaliculatum Miq.
Urostigma cunninghamii Miq.
Urostigma fraseri Miq.
Urostigma glabellum (Bl.) Miq.
Urostigma infectorium (Roxb.) Miq.
Urostigma lambertianum Miq.
Urostigma moritzianum Miq.
Urostigma nesophilum Miq.
Urostigma perseifolium Miq.
Urostigma psychotriifolium Miq.
Urostigma timorense Miq.
Urostigma wightianum Miq.
Description : Trees, epiphytic when young, with buttress or prop roots, deciduous or semideciduous. Stipules lanceolate-ovate, to 1 cm, apex acute. Petiole 2-5 cm; leaf blade obovate, narrowly lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, or elliptic-ovate, 10-20 × 4-7 cm, thinly leathery to thickly papery, not shiny when dry, base bluntly rounded, cuneate, or cordate, margin entire, apex acuminate to shortly acuminate; basal lateral veins short, secondary veins (5-)7-10(-11) on each side of midvein, and abaxially prominent, reticulate veins ± conspicuous. Figs axillary on leafy branchlets, paired or solitary or in clusters on leafless older branchlets, purple red when mature, globose, 7-12 mm in diam., with conspicuous interfloral bristles, sessile or pedunculate; involucral bracts small. Male, gall, and female flowers within same fig. Male flowers: few, near apical pore, sessile; calyx lobes 4 or 5, lanceolate; stamen 1; filament short; anther broadly ovoid. Gall flowers: pedicellate; calyx lobes 3 or 4; style lateral, shorter than ovary. Female flowers: similar to gall flowers; style longer than ovary. Achenes wrinkled on surface. Fl. Apr-Aug.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : bark, latex, leaves and fruits are used in the treatment of blood diseases, apoplexy, vertigo, delirium, pain, rheumatism, diabetes and also as anti-oxidants. Used to treat apoplexy, blood diseases, bone fracture, delirium, diabetes, Leucorrhoea, pain, rheumatism, skin ulcers and vertigo.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : 6-alpha-D-Tetraglucoside
quercetin
quercetin-3-O-alpha-D-arabinopyranoside
quercetin-3-O-beta-Dgalactopyranoside
kaempferol-3-O-alpha-D-arabinopyranoside
kaempferol-3-O-beta-Dgalactopyranoside
vogelin J
Reference : ~ Chandra Prakash Kala; "Aboriginal uses and management of ethnobotanical species in deciduous forests of Chhattisgarh state in India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2009); 5(20): 1-9 PMID :

~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :