MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT128 : Pterospermum acerifolium (L.) Willd. |
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| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | MALVACEAE | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Andaman Kanak Champa • Andaman: Makchun | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Cavanilla acerifolia (L.) J. F. Gmel. Dombeya acerifolia (L.) Gaertn. Pentapes acerifolia L. Pterospermadendron acerifolium (L.) Kuntze |
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| Description : | Tree, 12-15 m tall; bark smooth, ash-coloured; branchlets ferruginous-tomentose. Leaves polymorphous, obovate to orbicular or oblong, cordate, sometimes peltate at base, coarsely serrate at margin, entire or sinuately lobed at apex, 18-32 x 10-28 cm, grey-tomentose beneath; stipules multifid, caducous. Flowers axillary, solitary or in 2 or 3 flowered cymes, fragrant; bracts semilunar; bracteoles laciniate, caducous. Sepals linear-oblong, obtuse, 11-12.5 x 0.7-1.4 cm, fleshy, densely tomentose outside, villous inside. Petals linear-oblong, 8-10 x 0.7-1.2 cm, slightly shorter than sepals, stellate-pubescent outside, white. Staminodes ca 6 cm long, clavate. Ovary oblong, 5-loculed; ovules many in 2 rows; stigma clavate. Capsules stalked, oblong, 7.5-14 cm long, 5-angled, woody and brown-tubercled. Seeds obliquely ovoid, compressed with a large membranous wing. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The indumentum from the lower side of leaf is said to be used to prevent bleeding from wounds. A good tonic is prepared from the flowers which is also a cure for inflammation, ulcers, tumours, blood troubles and leprosy. The bark and leaves are used in small pox. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Bauerenol Betulin Friedlein luteolin Kaempferol 3-O-beta-D-galactoside |
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| Reference : | ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
(2018 - 2019); Book 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 : |
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