MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT002 : Miliusa tomentosa (Roxb.) J. Sinclair |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 3 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Frequent throughout | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Annonaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Homba, Hoom, Umbh, Umbho, Hoom • Gujarati: umbh • Hindi: hoom, kari • Kannada: kari hessare, wumb • Konkani: hum • Malayalam: kanakkaita • Marathi: humb, thoska • Telugu: barre duduga, budda duduga, gadida lotta, pedda chiluka duduga | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Saccopetalum tomentosum (Roxb.) Hook. f. & Thomson Uvaria tomentosa Roxb. (basionym). |
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| Description : | Large deciduous trees 15-20 m tall; bark 15-25 mm thick, brownish-black, longitudinally grooved; blaze yellowish; young parts tomentose. Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; petiole 2-6 mm long, slender, pubescent; lamina 8-17 x 2-10 cm, ovate or oblong-ovate; base cuneate to round or subacute; apex acute, margin entire chartaceous, tomentose above when young, glabrous with age except midrib, tomentose beneath; lateral nerves 8-10 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent beneath, intercostae reticulate; intramarginal nerves present. Flowers bisexual, greenish-yellow, solitary or a few together, leaf opposed or subterminal cymes, pedicels 3-7 cm long, very slender, tomentose; sepals 3, 5 x 1.5 mm, linear-lanceolate, tomentose; petals 6 (3+3), outer petals sepalloid, linear-lanceolate, 4-7 mm long, tomentose, inner ones ovate-oblong, saccate at base, obtuse, 1.5-2 x 0.5 cm, tomentose on both sides, outer petal shorter than inner; stamens many, connectives apiculate, not concealing the anthers; carpels many, stalked, broadly ovate, brown tomentose; ovules 4-6, in two rows, style absent, stigma capitate. Fruit aggregate of berries, fruitlets 2.5 cm across, subglobose, tapering to base, succulent, purple, stalk stout, 1-1.5 cm long; seeds 4-5. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Miliusa tomentosa (Roxb) Sinclair (Humb; Anonaceae) Unriped fruits are dried and crushed. They are burnt and the smoke is allowed to pass over the body of lad after delivery to reduce body swelling. Fruits are given to children to cure the weakness in summer. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Omesh Bajpai, Jitendra Pandey and Lal Babu Chaudhary; "Ethnomedicinal Uses of Tree Species by Tharu Tribes in the Himalayan Terai Region of India"; Research Journal of Medicinal Plant (2016); 10(1): 19-41 PMID : |
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