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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MT087 : Ficus hispida L. f.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 483  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Rosales
Family : Moraceae - Mulberry family
Genus : Ficus
Species : Ficus hispida L. f.
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Tree  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Fabaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Kat- Umbar; K- Korch, G- Tadwa, Hairy Fig, devil fig, opposite-leaved fig-tree, rough-leaved fig • Hindi: gobla, kagsha, kala umbar, katgularia, phalgu • Marathi: bokeda, bokhada, bokheda, dhed umbar, kala umbar, karavati • Tamil: peyatti • Malayalam: erumanaakk, kaattaththi, paarakam • Telugu: bomma-medi • Kannada: kada atthi • Konkani: kharvoti • Gujarati: dhed umbar • Sanskrit: kakodumbarika, malayuhu, phalgu, phanika • Nepali: kothaya-dumari • Manipuri: Asi Heibong
 
Synonym : Covellia assamica Miq.
Covellia courtallensis Miq.
Covellia daemonum (Vahl) Miq.
Covellia dasycarpa Miq.
Covellia oppositifolia (Roxb.) Gasp.
Covellia setulosa Miq.
Covellia wightiana Miq.
Ficus courtallensis (Miq.) Baill.
Ficus daemonum (Koen.) Vahl.
Ficus fecunda Bl.
Ficus goolereea Roxb.
Ficus hispida var. incana Kuntze.
Ficus hispida var. viridis Kuntze.
Ficus hispidioides S. Moore.
Ficus letaqui Lév. & Vaniot.
Ficus mollis Willd.
Ficus oppositifolia Roxb.
Ficus perinteregam Pennant.
Ficus poilanei Gagnep.
Ficus prominens Wall. ex Miq.
Ficus sambucixylon Lév.
Ficus scabra Jacq.
Ficus simphytifolia Lam.
Gonosuke demonum (Vahl) Rafin.
Gonosuke scabra (Jacq.) Rafin.
Sycomorphe roxburghii Miq.
Description : Trees, to 10 m high laxly branched; bark grey, smooth; blaze yellow; exudation milky; young shoots hispid; internodes of branchlets hollow. Leaves simple, opposite; stipules 11-15 mm long, interpetiolar, ovate-lanceolate, cauducous, often in whorls of 4 on the receptacles with leafless branches; petiole 1-4 cm long, stout, hispid, with a subnodal gland; lamina 7-20 x 6-10 cm, oblong, obovate, elliptic-oblong, ovate-oblong or obovate-oblong, base round, subcordate or cuneate, apex abruptly acute or acuminate or cuspidate, margin subentire to minutely dentate, membranous, scabrid, hispid-pubescent; 3-5-ribbed from base, lateral nerves 5-6 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers unisexual; inflorescence a syconia, dioecious, fascicled on trunk or on elongated pendulous or trailing leafless branches, depressed-globose, base narrowed, sticky pubescent without, faintly ribbed; peduncle 5-15 mm long, stout; basal bracts 3, 1-1.5 mm long, subtriangular, orifice slightly raised, closed by 5-6 apical bracts and numerous small inner bracts; internal bristles absent, appressed lateral bracts when present 2-4 mm wide; male flowers and gall flowers in same receptacle; female flowers in separate; male flowers ostiolar, in 2 rings; tepals 3 broad; stamen 1, subsessile; anther oblong, parallel, unequal; female flowers sessile or stalked; perianth short, tubular to 2 mm, glabrous; ovary depressed-globose, superior, red-brown; style 1.5 mm long, hairy; stigma clavate; gall flowers same as female but larger and distinctly stalked. Syconium 2-2.5 cm across, yellow; achenes 1.5 mm, lenticular, keeled with prominent hilum.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The juice of the root is used in the treatment of fevers. The bark is antiperiodic, emetic and tonic. The fruit is emetic. The juice of the fig is used in the treatment of liver problems.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : lupeol acetate
beta-amyrine acetate
beta-sitosterol
n-triacontanol
gluanol
10-ketotetracosyl arachidate
6-O-methyltylophorinidine
2-demethoxytylophorine
hispidine
oleanolic acid
bergaptine
linalool
linalool oxide
terpeneol
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 :