Corchorus fascicularis Lam.
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 |
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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. |