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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH266 : Girardinia zeylanica Decne.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 478  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Rosales
Family : Urticaceae
Genus : Girardinia
Species : Girardinia zeylanica
Plant Location in Melghat : Chikhaldara  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Urticaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : K- Agel Zara, Himalayan nettle, Nilghiri nettle, Bichchhoo
 
Synonym : Girardinia diversifolia (Link) Friis
Girardinia adoensis (Steud.) Wedd.
Girardinia armata Kunth nom. illeg.
Girardinia chingianae S.S.Chien
Girardinia condensata (Hochst. ex Steud.) Wedd.
Girardinia erosa Decne.
Girardinia formosana Hayata ex Yamam.
Girardinia furialis Blume
Girardinia heterophylla (Vahl) Decne.
Girardinia hibiscifolia Miq.
Girardinia javanica Wedd.
Girardinia leschenaultiana Decne.
Girardinia longispica Hand.-Mazz.
Girardinia palmata Blume nom. illeg.
Girardinia vahlii Blume nom. illeg.
Girardinia vitifolia Franch. nom. illeg.
Girardinia vitifolia Wedd.
Urtica adoensis Hochst.
Urtica adoensis Hochst. ex Steud.
Urtica buraei H. Lév.
Urtica condensata Hochst. ex Steud.
Urtica diversifolia Link
Urtica heterophylla Vahl
Urtica lobatifolia S.S. Ying
Urtica palmata Forssk.
Description : Subshrubs with white stinging hairs. Leaves alternate, 3-7-lobed, 8-15 x 10-17 cm, base cordate, lobes margin inciso-serrate, densely strigose, 3-ribbed from base; stipules to 1.5 x 1 cm, broadly oblong, auricled, acute; petiole to 10 cm long, reddish. Male flowers in axillary, cylindrical branched or unbranched spikes, white; tepals 4, c. 2 mm long, ovate, cucullate; stamens 4; pistillode globose. Female flowers in subterminal heads; tepals connate into a ventricose tube, 2-4-lobed; ovary flattened, ovate, style filiform. Achenes c. 3 mm across, compressed.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : the plant itself has medicinal value, and Nettle Tea has been used in Europe for many centuries. The leaves should not be touched with bare hands, but dried or boiled thoroughly in water , are used as diuretic, anti- rheumatic, anti-allergic and also for lactating mothers. The other parts of the plant are also useful for production of oils, biomass and fibre or paper.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : scopoletin
kaempferol
Beta-sitosterol
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Ethnomedicinal plants used in skin treatment by Korkus of Melghat Dist. Amravati (MS), India"; Life Sciences Leaflets (2011); 178-191 PMID :