MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS024 : Aspidopterys cordata (Heyne ex Wall.) A. Juss. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 64 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Common throughout | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Malpighiaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Bokadvel, | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Hiraea cordata Heyne ex Wall. Hiptage cordata. |
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| Description : | Slender climbers; young branches white silky-tomentose, glabrescent with age. Leaves orbicular or broadly ovate-cordate, deeply cordate or rounded at base, abruptly acuminate at apex with broad acuminate tip, 5 - 14 x 4 - 13 cm, glabrous above, white silky-tomentose beneath; petioles 3.5 - 4 cm long. Panicles 9 - 20 cm long, white or flavidtomentose; peduncles decompound or compound. Flowers ca 1 cm across; buds oblong, 2 - 3 X 1.5 - 2 mm; pedicels 3 - 6 mm long in flowers, 11 - 14 mm long in fruits, slender, filiform, articulate below middle at about 5 - 6 mm from base, white-tomentose above articulation. Calyx-lobes ovate or elliptic, 2 - 3 x ca 1 mm, glabrous. Petals broadly oblong or oblong-elltptlc, obtuse, 4 - 5 x 2 - 2.5 mm, white or pale yellow. Filaments 2 - 5 mm long; anthers pale yellow, 1 - 1.5 x ca 0.5 mm. Ovary villous. Samaras suborbicular or slightly elliptic. tapering at base and membranous along margins, 2 - 3 x 1.5 - 2.2 cm, brown, glabrous. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Kavishankar, G.B; Lakshmidevi, N.; Murthy, S.M.; Prakash, H.S. and Niranjana, S.R.; "Diabetes and medicinal plants-A review"; Int J Pharm Biomed Sci (2011); 2(3): 65-80 PMID : |
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