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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH016 : Abelmoschus ficulneus (L.) Wight & Arn. ex Wight

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 28  
Class : Magnoliopsida
Order : Malvales
Family : Malvaceae
Genus : Abelmoschus
Species : Abelmoschus ficulneus (L.) Wight & Arn. ex Wight
Plant Location in Melghat : On bunds of fields and hill slopes  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Malvaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Ran Bhendi, Jangli Bhendi
 
Synonym : Hibiscus ficulneus Linn.
Hibiscus sinuatus Cay.
Laguna aculeata Cav.
Description : Undershrub, 0.5-1.5 m tall. Stem usually simple, and short hairy, sometimes prickly, usually thick and fistular. Leaves 2-15 cm long and broad, orbicular, cordate at base, serrate, scabrous on both sides, 3-5-parted, lobes obovate to spathulate; stipules 5-12 mm long, linear or filiform, hirsute; petiole 2-20 cm long, simple hairy. Flowers axillary, solitary or in terminal racemes by the reduction of leaves; pedicel 1-1.5 cm long, in fruit up to 3.5 cm, densely simple hairy, glabrescent. Epicalyx segments 5-6, lanceolate, rough, caducous before expansion of corolla. Calyx c. 1.5 cm long. Corolla c. 3 cm across, white, becoming pink, with a dark purple spot in the centre; petals obovate, 2-3 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm broad. Staminal tube c. 1.5 cm long, glabrous. Capsule 3-3.5 cm long, 1.5-2 cm across, 5 angular, ovoid, simple, hairy, glabrescent, valves membranous. Seeds c. 3 mm across, globular, black, glabrous to stellate pilose.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Diarrhea, decoction of the crushed fresh root is taken to treat calcium deficiency
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Palmitic acid, Oleic acid, Linoleic acid, malvalic acid and sterculic acid
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID :