MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT132 : Salix tetrasperma Roxb. |
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| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | SALICACEAE | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Indian Willow • Hindi: Bod, Bains • Manipuri: Ooyum • Bengali: Panijama • Tamil: Atrupalai • Kannada: Niranji • Malayalam: Arali, Atrupala | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Pleiarina populifolia N.Chao & J.Liu Pleiarina pyrina (Wall. ex Andersson) N.Chao & J.Liu Pleiarina tetrasperma (Roxb.) N. Chao & G.T. Gong Salix apiculata Anderss. Salix azaolana Blanco Salix calophylla Wall. Salix cuspidata D. Don Salix densa Wall. Salix glabrescens Lindl. Salix higelii Wimm. ex Anderss. Salix horsfieldiana Miq. Salix javanica Anderss. Salix lenta Fries Salix myurus Wimm. ex Anderss. Salix nilagirica Miq. Salix nobilis Fries Salix populifolia Anderss. Salix pyrina Wall. Salix suaveolens Arderss. Salix urophylla Lindl. Salix wallichii Wimm. ex Anderss. Salix zollingeri Miq. |
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| Description : | Deciduous dioecious trees, to 25 m high, bark 10-12 thick, pale brown, rough, vertically fissured; blaze red; young branches silky pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules lateral, ovate, cauducous; petiole 10-25 mm, slender, glabrous, grooved above; lamina 6-15 x 2-5 cm, ovate, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate; base acute or rounded; apex acuminate; margin serrate, glabrous and shining above, glaucous beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 10-18 pairs, pinnate, close, prominent, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers unisexual, in axillary catkins, to 6 cm long, minutely silky villous; male yellowish; female greenish; bracts ovate, 2 x 2 mm, densely woolly; perianth absent; stamens 5-12, unequal, free, with 2 glands at the base; anthers basifixed; disc yellow, ovary stalked, superior, 1-celled, ovoid, 4-6 ovuled; stigma 2, branched again. Fruit a capsule, 4 mm, 2-4 valved; seeds 1-4, oblong, with long deciduous hairs. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Dried leaves mixed with sugar given in rheumatism, epilepsy, venereal diseases, stone in the bladder, piles and swellings. Bark used as a febrifuge. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Picein Sachaliside salicin salicortin salireposide Vimalin |
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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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