MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT096 : Miliusa velutina (Dunal) Hook. f. & Thomson |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Was found along Betul border | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Annonaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Velvety Miliusa • Hindi: chopar chilla, dom-sal, domsal • Kannada: anachae, ance, anchae, anche, anchey, anje, dhuma saala • Malayalam: kanakaitha, kanakayitha, kanakkaita, kanakyitha • Sanskrit: rsyaprokta • Telugu: nalla dadduga, nalla dudduga, nalladaduga | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Guatteria velutina (Dunal) A. DC. Uvaria velutina Dunal. Uvaria villosa Roxb. |
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| Description : | Deciduous tree upto 10 m tall; young branches tomentose. Leaves broadly ovate-elliptic to obovate, acute to shortly acuminate with rounded to cordate base, pilose to subtomentose above, tomentose below. Young leaves covered on both sides with very dense appressed silky hairs. Petiole 2-8 mm, stout, tomentose. Peduncle 6-25 mm, tomentose, extra-axillary or terminal on short, lateral branches, three to six flowered. Pedicel 33-88 mm, tomentose. Bract and bracteole minute, tomentose, caducous. Sepals and petals externally covered with very dense appressed golden hairs. Sepals free, ovate, acute. Petals glabrous within, outer 3-7 x 2-2.5 mm, yellowish, lanceolate, acute, inner 7-18 x 6-10 mm, broadly ovate, subacute. Receptacle convex and glabrous. Stamens 1 mm long, orbicular, connective-tip membranous, scarcely exceeding the locules, locules equal, filament short and thick, perpendicular to the anther. Carpel 2-2.5 mm long, ovary densely woolly dorsally, 2-ovuled, stigma clavate. Monocarps many, ovoid, pilose, 1-2-seeded, stipe tomentose, 5-8 mm. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | In Ayurveda; Fruits in chronic constipation | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | acetogenins-A acetogenins-B |
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| Reference : | ~ Syeda Jumana, Choudhury M. Hasan, Mohammad A. Rashid; "Alkaloids from the stem bark of Miliusa velutina"; Biochemical Systematics and Ecology (2000); 28(5): 483-485 PMID : 10725604 ~ 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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