Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH023 : Corchorus fascicularis Lam.

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 52

Synonym : Corchorus acutangulus auct. non Forsk. (1775); Lam. Corchorus fuscus Roxb. Corchorus oppositiflorus Hassk.

Plant Common Name : Chichura, Pat, Chanchu, Chevuna, Dirgha patra, Satiktaka, Kala saka

Plant Family : Malvaceae / Tiliaceae

Description : Erect or spreading, (10-) 20-60 cm tall, much branched, annual herb. Stem and branches purple, pilose. Leaves 3-5-costate, costae hairy to almost glabrous, lanceolate to ovate, 2-9.5 cm long, 1-5 cm broad, oblique or obtuse at the base, serrate, basal serratures prolonged into setaceous appendages or not, glabrous except the hairy to glabrescent costae, acute; petiole 0.5-3(-4) cm long, purple, pilose; stipules setaceous, 5-7 mm long, pilose, purplish green. Cyme antiphyllous, very shortly pedunculate, mostly 2, rarely 3-flowered. Flowers golden yellow, c. 1 cm across, pedicel c. 2 mm long, jointed; bracts akin to stipules, 4-6 mm long, purple. Sepals linear-oblong, c. 4 mm long, hooded and awned at the apex, purple dotted outside, green within, glabrous. Petals obovate, 3.5-5 mm long, c. 3 mm broad, obtuse, hairy at the base. Stamens (12-) 30, filaments c. 3 mm long. Carpels 3; ovary oblong-cylindric, c. 1.5-2 mm long, minutely hairy, 3-loculed, truncate above; style 3-fid, c. 1.5 mm long, stigmas bilobed. Capsules solitary or paired, with 3 fairly stout wings, (10-) 15-25 mm long, c. 4-6 mm in diameter, truncate and terminating in 3, bifid, radiating, 3-7 mm long beaks at apex, 3-loculed, locules transversely septate or aseptate. Seeds blackish-brown, angular, rough, obliquely truncate at both ends. Fl. Per.: August-October.

Plant Location in Melghat : Frequent throughout in stream, river beds and wet lands

Medicinal Use / Activity : Anemia, Improving memory, Intelligence, Aphrodisiac, Laxative etc. Anti-cancer(Wozniak et al., 2015)

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: Beta-sitosterol; Betulinic acid; flavonoid glycoside; Corchoroside-A; Corchoroside-B; Corchoroside-C; Corchoroside-D; Corchoroside-E; Corchoroside-F; Lupeol; Quercetin; Kaempferol; Oleanolic acid; 2- Methylanthraquinone and Fusidic acid.

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (7):

Lupeol;

Beta-sitosterol;

Quercetin;

Kaempferol;

Betulinic acid;

Oleanolic Acid;

Betulin;

Plant's Current Status :

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - A. P. Rajput et al; "Antibacterial and antifungal activities of Corchorus fascicularis" Int.J. PharmTech Res. 2011,3(4) 2196 - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200013573

Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass : Dilleniidae
Order : Malvales
Family : Malvaceae / Tiliaceae - Linden family
Genus : Corchorus
Species : Corchorus fascicularis Lam.

Corchorus fascicularis Lam.
Corchorus fascicularis Lam.