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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MS097 : Securinega virosa (Roxb. ex Willd.) Baill.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 474  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Malpighiales
Family : Phyllanthaceae
Genus : Securinega Comm. ex A.Juss.
Species : Securinega virosa
Plant Location in Melghat : In Harisal, Semadoh, Raipur, Bori  
Plant Category : Shrubs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Phyllanthaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Pandhari, Pithondi, Common Bushweed • Hindi: dalme, patala • Kannada: belahuli, bilisuli, gudahale • Malayalam: perinklavu • Marathi: kodarsi • Tamil: irubulai, pula, varadbula, vedbula, vellaipula • Telugu: mekarayi, sulamunta, tellapuli, tellapurugudu
 
Synonym : Flueggea virosa (Roxb. ex Willd.) Royle
Acidoton virosus (Roxb. ex Willd.) Kuntze.
Phyllanthus virosus Roxb. ex Willd.
Description : Profusely branched dioecious shrubs. Leaves alternate, 1.5-3.5 x 1-2 cm, obovate, base cuneate, apex obtuse, glaucous below, chartaceous; petiole c. 3 mm long. Flowers minute in axillary clusturs, short-pedicelled. Male flowers numerous; pedicels to 2 mm long; tepals 5, c. 1 mm long, ovate-concave, crenulate; stamens 5, free; pistillodes 3. Female flowers c. 2 mm across; tepals 5, ovate. Fruit white, c. 4 mm across, globose.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : sedative in children and in mental illnesses. Analgesic, anti-diabetics, Anti-daote. The roots and fruits are believed to be an effective snake bite remedy. Roots are used as contraceptives and for the treatment of syphilis, gonorrhea, rheumatism, sterility, rashes, and an infusion of the root is taken to relieve malaria. The bark is believed to provide a treatment for Diarrhea and pneumonia.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : 11-O-acetyl bergenin
bergenin
virosecurinine
ent-phyllanthidine
kaempferol
quercetin
gallic acid
daucosterol
beta-sitosterol
ent-podocarpanes
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :