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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MS012 : Sida glutinosa Roxb.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 40  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Malvales
Family : Malvaceae - Mallow family
Genus : Sida L. - fanpetals
Species : Sida glutinosa Comm. ex Cav. - sticky fanpetals
Plant Location in Melghat : Arround villages on waste lands  
Plant Category : Shrubs  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : Malvaceae  

 
Plant Common Name : Mysore fan petals
 
Synonym : Sida mysorensis Wight & Arn.
Sida hirta Wall.
Sida urticifolia Wight & Arn.
Sida urticifolia Wight & Arn., Prodr. 1834, non St. Hill., 1828
Sida wightiana D. Dietr.


Description : Erect subshrubs, aromatic; stem viscid, green, densely invested with stellate, gland-tipped and simple patent hairs. Leaves 3-5 x 2-3.5 cm, broadly ovate, base cordate, margins serrate-crenate, apex acute to acuminate, 5-7-nerved at base, pubescent with stellate and simple hairs intermingled with gland-hairs on both surfaces; petioles to 3 cm long; stipules c. 5 mm long, linear, pubescent. Flowers axillary, solitary or often in 5-7-flowered, lax racemes; pedicels to 5 mm long, filiform, jointed above middle. Calyx to 7 mm long, campanulate, divided to the middle; lobes 5, triangular, densely covered with both stellate and simple hairs externally. Corolla c. 8 mm across, orangish-yellow; petals c. 5 x 3 mm , obovate, emarginate or retuse at apex. Staminal column to 3 mm long; anthers 10-14, yellow. Ovary c. 2 mm across, subglobose; styles and stigmas 5, yellow. Schizocarp c. 3 mm long; mericarps 5, to 3 x 2 mm, trigonous. Seeds c. 2 mm long, reniform, brownish-black.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity :
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : glutinoside
24(28)-dehydromakisterone A (2)
1,2,3,9-tetrahydropyrrolo[2,1-b]-quinazolin-3-amine
docosanoic acid
1-triacontanol
campesterol
stigmasterol
beta-sitosterol

Reference : ~ 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

~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :