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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MS014 : Urena lobata L.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 43  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Malvales
Family : Malvaceae - Mallow family
Genus : Urena L. - urena
Species : Urena lobata L. - Caesarweed
Plant Location in Melghat : On mud flats along stream and river banks  
Plant Category : Shrubs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Malvaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : K-Jaljatang, Caesarweed • Hindi: Bachita, Unga, Lapetua • Manipuri: Sampakpi • Marathi: Vanbhendi • Tamil: Ottatti • Telugu: Nalla Benda, Pedda Benda • Kannada: Otte • Nepali: Naalukuro, Bherejhaar, Bariyaar, Dalle Kuro, Katahare Kuro
 
Synonym : Malachra urena DC.
Urena lobata var. sinuata (L.) Borss. Waalk.
Urena lobata var. sinuata (L.) Miq.
Urena lobata subsp. sinuata (L.) Borss. Waalk.
Urena aculeata Mill.
Urena blumei Hassk.
Urena cana Wall.
Urena diversifolia Schumach.
Urena grandiflora (Moc. & Sesse) ex DC.
Urena haenkeana Walp.
Urena heteromorpha Montr.
Urena heterophylla Presl.
Urena lobata var. henryi S.Y. Hu.
Urena lobata var. rhombifolia A. Gray.
Urena lobata var. tomentosa (Bl.) Walp.
Urena lobata var. yunnanensis S.Y. Hu.
Urena loureirii Meissn. ex Steud.
Urena mauritiana Sieber ex Colla.
Urena microcarpa DC.
Urena monopetala Lour.
Urena obtusata Guill. & Perr.
Urena phyllomorpha Steud.
Urena polyflora Lour.
Urena repanda Bl.
Urena ribesia Sm.
Urena sieberi Colla.
Urena swartzii DC.
Urena tomentosa Bl.
Urena trilobata Vell.
Urena virgata Guill. & Perr.
Description : Subshrublike herbs, erect, Branchlets stellate tomentose. Stipules filiform, ca. 2 mm, caducous; petiole 1-4 cm, gray-white stellate; leaf blades on proximal part of stem nearly orbicular, 4-5 × 5-6 cm, base rounded or nearly cordate, margin serrate, apex 3-lobed, blades on middle part of stem ovate, 5-7 × 3-6.5 cm, those on distal part of stem oblong to lanceolate, 4-7 × 1.5-3 cm, abaxially gray stellate puberulent, adaxially puberulent. Flowers solitary or slightly aggregated, axillary. Pedicel ca. 3 mm, woolly. Epicalyx lobes connate for ca. 1/3 length, ca. 6 mm, puberulent. Calyx cup-shaped, lobes 5, slightly shorter than bracteoles, stellate puberulent, caducous. Corolla reddish, ca. 15 mm in diam.; petals 5, obovate, ca. 1.5 cm, abaxially stellate puberulent. Staminal column ca. 15 mm, glabrous. Style branches 10, hirsute. Fruit flattened globose, ca. 1 cm in diam.; mericarps stellate puberulent and spiny with hooked spines.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The plant is used as a diuretic, febrifuge, and for treatment of rheumatism, malaria, gonorrhea, wound, and toothache. A paste of the fruit is used to treat Diarrhea.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : linoleic acid
palmitic acid
oleic acid
cyclopropenoid acid
malvalic acid
sterculic acid
ceplignan-4-O-beta-d-glucoside
urenoside A
furocoumarin
imperatorin
quercetin
kaempferol
rutin
afzelin
astragalin
tiliroside
crenuloside
kaempferol glycosides
syringic acid
glucosyringic acid
salicylic acid
protocatechuic acid
caffeic acid
diisobutyl phthalate
Imperatorin
furano-coumarin
Reference : ~ J. Lenin Bapuji and S. Venkat Ratnam; "Traditional Uses of Some Medicinal Plants by tribals of Gangaraju Madugula Mandal of Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh"; Ethnobotanical Leaflets (2009); 13: 388-98 PMID :

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