MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS013 : Sida orientalis Cab. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 41 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Amongst grasses of forest undergrowth | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Malvaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | prickly fan-petals, prickly sida, spiny sida, teaweed • Bengali: bon methi • Gujarati: kantalo bal • Hindi: baryar, gulsakari • Konkani: ganget • Malayalam: kurunthotti • Marathi: bala, jungali methi • Sanskrit: gangeruki, kantakinibala, mahabala, nagabala, sahadeva, visvadeva • Tamil: mayir-manikkam • Telugu: nagabala • Urdu: baryar; | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Sida spinosa L. Malachodendron corchoroides J.F.Gmel. (unresolved) Malva spinosa (L.) E.H.L.Krause Malvinda alba (L.) Medik. Malvinda alnifolia Medik. (unresolved) Malvinda angustifolia (Mill.) Medik. Malvinda spinosa (L.) Medik. Malvinda spinosa (L.) Moench Sida affinis J.A.Schmidt [Illegitimate] Sida angustifolia Lam. [Illegitimate] Sida angustifolia Mill. Sida angustifolia C. Presl Sida angustifolia var. major C.Presl Sida antillensis Urb. Sida bicolor Cav. Sida brachypetala DC. Sida carpinifolia f. balbisiana (DC.) Millsp. Sida emarginata Willd. Sida heterocarpa Engelm. ex A.Gray Sida milleri DC. Sida minor Macfad. Sida pimpinellifolia Mill. Sida spinosa var. angustifolia (Lam.) Griseb. Sida subdistans A.St.-Hil. & Naudin Sida tenuicaulis Hook.f. Sida truncata L'Hér. [Illegitimate] Sida ulmifolia Mill. Stewartia corchoroides Forssk. (Unresolved) |
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| Description : | Subshrubs erect, to 2 m tall; stems densely stellate woolly. Leaves dimorphic; stipules subulate, 3-5 mm, caducous; petiole of lower leaves ca. 2 mm, of upper leaves 8-10 mm, densely shortly stellate woolly; blades on proximal part of stem ovate, 4-7 × ca. 3 cm, both surfaces densely shortly stellate woolly, base nearly rounded, margin crenate, apex acute, those on distal part of stem linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 2-4 × 0.5-1 cm. Flowers solitary, axillary or terminal. Pedicel 1.5-3 cm, densely shortly stellate woolly and with long silk hairs, articulate near apex. Calyx cup-shaped, ca. 8 mm, abaxially densely stellate woolly, lobes triangular, apices acute. Corolla yellow; petals ca. 14 mm. Filament tube ca. 6 mm, hirsute. Schizocarp ± disk-shaped, ca. 6 mm in diam.; mericarps 8 or 9, ca. 4 mm, wrinkled, minutely hairy, apex not awned. Fl. autumn-winter. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Leaves are demulcent and refrigerant and are useful in gonorrhea, gleet and scalding urine. Decoction of the root-bark and root is used in mild cases of debility and fever. Leaves are bruised in water, strained through cloth and administered in the form of a draught. Root is used in decoction. The stems are rich in mucilage and are employed internally as an emollient, diuretic, and as a febrifuge with pepper. The roots are bitter, cooling, and anthelmintic. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | - | |||||||||||||
| 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 : |
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