Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH026 : Triumfetta pentandra A. Rich.

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 61

Synonym : Triumfetta cuneata Hochst. ex A. Rich.; Triumfetta neglecta Wight & Arnott.;

Plant Common Name : K-Jal Jatang, fivestamen burbark, nichardi

Plant Family : Tiliaceae

Description : An erect, branched, 25-60 cm tall, annual herb. Stem subscabrous, stellate hairy. Leaves 5-costate, basal rhomboid-ovate, palmately 3-lobed, terminal ones ovate-lanceolate, unlobed, 4.5-9 cm long, 3.5-6 cm broad, sparingly simple hairy above, stellate pubescent below, acuminate-acute, cuneate at the base, unequally coarsely serrate; petiole 1-5 cm long, scabrous, densely hairy; stipules subulate, 5-6 mm long. Cymes antiphyllous, short peduncled, arranged racemosely due to abortion of upper leaves. Flowers yellow, c. 4-5 mm across, almost sessile; bracts linear, c. 2-3 mm long, hairy. Sepals lorate, c. 2.5 mm long, cucullate and awned at the apex, sparsely stellate hairy outside. Petals spathulate, as long as sepals, glabrous at the base, obtuse. Stamens mostly 5, rarely up to 10, filaments hairy outside at the base. Carpels 2; ovary ovoid, 2-loculed, hairy. Capsule ovoid, densely tomentose, 6.5-7 mm long, 4.5-6 mm in diameter including c. 1.5-2 mm long, ascending, uncinate spines with a line of spreading hairs on the upper side. Fl. Per.: July-October.

Plant Location in Melghat : Along roadsides in fields

Medicinal Use / Activity : Fresh root scrapings are applied as a poultice on sores and small wounds. The crushed leaf is applied in dressings for treatment of goitre and deformities. In veterinary medicine in Burundi leaf sap is given for treatment of theileriosis.

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Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=250064386

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

~ Kavishankar, G.B; Lakshmidevi, N.; Murthy, S.M.; Prakash, H.S. and Niranjana, S.R.; "Diabetes and medicinal plants-A review"; Int J Pharm Biomed Sci (2011); 2(3): 65-80 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 : Tiliaceae - Linden family
Genus : Triumfetta L. - burbark
Species : Triumfetta pentandra A. Rich. - fivestamen burbark

Triumfetta pentandra A. Rich. - fivestamen burbark
Triumfetta pentandra A. Rich. - fivestamen burbark