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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MT089 : Ficus religiosa L.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 485  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Urticales
Family : Moraceae - Mulberry family
Genus : Ficus L. - fig
Species : Ficus religiosa L. - peepul tree
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Tree  
Plant's Current Status : Common  
Plant Family : Fabaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Pipal, Pimpal, K-pipri, G-Rai. Ali, Peepal, holy fig tree, peepul, sacred fig tree • Assamese: ahot, pippol • Bengali: asbattha • Gujarati: asvattha, piplo • Hindi: aswattha, pipal • Kannada: aralimara, asvatthamara • Konkani: ashvata ruku, pimpal • Malayalam: arayal, pippalam • Manipuri: sana khongnang • Marathi: ashwattha, pimpala • Mizo: hmâwng • Nepali: pipal • Oriya: osta • Sanskrit: ashvattha, pippala, bodhivriksha, plaksha • Tamil: araca-maram, pippalam • Telugu: pippalamu, Ravichettu • Urdu: pipal
 
Synonym : Ficus caudata Stokes.
Ficus peepul Griff.
Ficus rhynchophylla Steud.
Ficus superstitiosa Link.
Urostigma affine Miq.
Urostigma religiosa (L.) Gasparrini.
Description : Deciduous trees, to 25 m high; aerial roots absent; bark grey, smooth; exudation milky. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; new leaves pink; stipules 1-1.5 cm long, lateral, ovate-lanceolate, puberulous; petiole 60-120 mm long, stout, glabrous, articulated, a gland at the apex below; lamina 5-13 x 4.5-12 cm, broadly ovate, base truncate or subcordate, apex caudate-acuminate, margin entire, undulate, glabrous, shining, coriaceous; 5-7-ribbed from base, lateral nerves 8-10 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent beneath, looped near the margin, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers unisexual; inflorescence a syconia, sessile, axillary, in pairs, obovoid or globose, twig wall thick; basal bracts 3, 3-5 mm long, ovate-obtuse, silky-puberulous, persistent, orifice, closed by 3 apical bracts in a disc 2-3 mm wide; internal bristles none; flowers of 4 kinds; male flowers ostiolar, sessile, in one ring; tepals 2, ovate-lanceolate, free, reddish; stamen 1; filaments 0.2 mm; anther oblong, parallel; female flowers sessile; tepals 3-4, linear-lanceolate, free, brownish, glabrous; ovary superior, ovoid-oblong, 1 mm, red-brown, style 1.5 mm, lateral, stigma rounded; gall flowers similar to female. Syconium 4-8 mm across, ripening pink, purple or black; achenes smooth.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Asthama, The leaves and twigs are alterative, anti-dote, aphrodisiac, astringent, antigonorrheal and laxative. It is used as an anti-dote against bites of venomous animals, and for the treatment of haemoptysis and fistula. Fresh sap from the leaves is used to cure Diarrhea, cholera and for wound healing. An infusion of the bark is drunk as an anti-diabetic. A decoction of the bark is used as skin wash to treat scabies, ulcers and skin diseases. The aerial roots are diuretic. They are used in the treatment of ascites and are chewed by women to promote fertility. Used traditionally as anti-ulcer, anti-bacterial, anti-diabetic, in the treatment of gonorrhea and skin diseases.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Beta-sitosteryl-D-glucoside
n-octacosanol
methyl oleanolate
lanosterol
stigmasterol
lupen-3-one
phytosterolin
Beta-sitosterol
kaempeferol
quercetin
myricetin
bergapten
begaptol
linoleic acid
Reference : ~ Chellaiah Muthu, Muniappan Ayyanar, Nagappan Raja and Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu; "Medicinal plants used by traditional healers in Kancheepuram District of Tamil Nadu, India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2006); 2(43): 1-10 PMID :

~ 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 :

~ Shubhangi Pawar and D A Patil; "Observations on folkloric medicinal plants of Jalgaon district, Maharashtra"; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (2004); 3(4): 437-442 PMID :

~ Rajendra Prasad Bharti, Abhilasha shrivastava, Jagjeevan Ram Choudhary, Asha Tiwari and N. K. Soni; "Ethno Medicinal Plants used by Tribal Communities in Vindhya region of Rewa and Sidhi District of Madhya Pradesh, India"; IOSR Journal of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences (2013); 8(6): 23-28 PMID :