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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH345 : Sida rhombifolia Linn

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 3  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Malvales
Family : Malvaceae - Mallow family
Genus : Sida L. - fanpetals
Species : Sida rhombifolia Linn.
Plant Location in Melghat : Makhala  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Malvaceae  

 
Plant Common Name : Angled Sida, arrow leaf sida, arrow-leaf sida, arrowleaf sida, big Jack, bloom weed, broom weed, broomstick, coffee bush, common sida, country mallow Cuba jute,, Cuban jute, flaxweed, Indian hemp, jelly leaf, jellyleaf, Paddy's lucerne, Pretoria sida, Queensland hemp, rhomboid ilima, shrub sida, sida retusa, sida weed, sida-retusa, teaweed
 
Synonym : Diadesma rhombifolia (L.) Raf.
Malva rhombifolia (L.) E.H.L. Krause
Napaea rhombifolia (L.) Moench
Sida adjusta Marais
Sida andicola Gand.
Sida compressa Wall.
Sida hondensis Kunth
Sida insularis Hatus.
Sida pringlei Gand.
Sida rhombifolia var. canariensis Griseb.
Sida rhombifolia var. canescens DeCandolle
Sida rhombifolia var. guazumifolia K. Schum.
Sida rhombifolia subsp. insularis (Hatus.) Hatus.
Sida rhombifolia subsp. rhombifolia
Sida rhombifolia var. rhombifolia
Sida rhombifolia var. rhomboidea (Roxb. ex Fleming) Mast.
Sida rhomboidea Roxb. ex Fleming [Spelling variant]
Sida ruderata Macfad.
Sida unicornis Marais.


Description : Subshrubs; branchlets brown, stellate pubescent. Leaves 2-5 x 1.5-3.5 cm, rhomboid, apex acute, base obtuse or cuneate, margins serrate above the upper half, lower side tomentose; petiole 0.5 to 1 cm, stipule to 1 cm, linear. Flowers axillary, solitary or in clusters, yellow; pedicels to 6 mm, tomentose; calyx broadly campanulate, lobes triangular, to 3 mm, tomentose outside; petals 9 x 5 mm, obovate. Schizocarp enclosed in calyx, semiorbicular, 3 mm long; mericarps 8-10, awned at apex, to 1 mm.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : anti-inflammatory; anti-oxidant; Asthma;
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : ephedrine
saponin
choline
pseudoephedrine
beta-phenethylamine
vascin
hipaphorine
beta-sitosterol
stigmasterol
sitosterol-3-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside
stigmasterol-3-O-beta-Dglucopyranoside
phaeophytin A
5,7-dihydroxy-4'-methoxyflavone
cryptolepinone
cryptolepine
scopoletin
scoporone
ethoxy-ferulate
kaempferol
quindolinone
11-methoxy-quindoline
Sterculic acid
Malvalic acid
Myrstic acid
Palmitic acid
Stearic acid
Stearic acid
Linoleic acid
beta-Phenethylamine
Vascicine
Crytolepinone
Escoporone
Ecdysone
Cholesterol
Campesterol
Spinasterol

Reference : ~ Jennifer L. McCracken, Sreenivas P. Veeranki, Bill T. Ameredes, William J. Calhoun; "Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in Adults - A Review"; JAMA (2017); 318(3): 279-290 PMID : 28719697

~ Anupama A. Suralkar, Kuldeep K. Gaikwad, Asha S. Jadhav, Gayatri S. Vaidya; "Evaluation of antihistaminic activity of Sida rhombifolia Linn in management of allergic asthma"; International Journal of Institutional Pharmacy and Life Sciences (2014); 4(2): 322-332 PMID :

~ Mah SH, Teh SS and Ee GC; "Anti-inflammatory, anti-cholinergic and cytotoxic effects of Sida rhombifolia"; Pharm Biol. (2017); 55(1): 920-928 PMID : 28152649

~ Dinda B, Das N, Dinda S, Dinda M and SilSharma I; "The genus Sida L. - A traditional medicine: Its ethnopharmacological, phytochemical and pharmacological data for commercial exploitation in herbal drugs industry"; J Ethnopharmacol (2015); 176: 135-76 PMID : 26497766

~ Chen S; "Natural products triggering biological targets - a review of the anti-inflammatory phytochemicals targeting the arachidonic acid pathway in allergy asthma and rheumatoid arthritis."; Curr Drug Targets (2011); 12(3): 288-301 PMID : 20955151

~ Park HS, Kim SR, Kim JO and Lee YC; "The roles of phytochemicals in bronchial asthma"; Molecules (2010); 15(10): 6810-34 PMID : 20924320

~ Balaji Kasirajan, Rajadurai Maruthamuthu, Vidhya Gopalakrishnan, Krithika Arumugam, Hudson Asirvatham, Vidya Murali, Ramya Mohandass and Anusha Bhaskar; "A database for medicinal plants used in treatment of asthma"; Bioinformation (2007); 2(3): 105-106 PMID :

~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Additions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants)"; The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat (1998); Technical Bulletin No. VII PMID :

~ Das, DC.; Sinha, NK.; Chattopadhyay JC.; Das M. and Samanta P.; "The use of medicinal plants for the treatment of Gonorrhea and Syphilis in south west Bengal of India"; International Journal of Phytomedicine (2013); 5: 14-17 PMID :