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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH345 : Sida rhombifolia Linn

Plant Category : Herbs
Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 3
Synonym : Diadesma rhombifolia (L.) Raf.; Malva rhombifolia (L.) E.H.L. Krause; Napaea rhombifolia (L.) Moench; Sida adjusta Marais; Sida andicola Gand.; Sida compressa Wall.; Sida hondensis Kunth; Sida insularis Hatus.; Sida pringlei Gand.; Sida rhombifolia var. canariensis Griseb.; Sida rhombifolia var. canescens DeCandolle; Sida rhombifolia var. guazumifolia K. Schum.; Sida rhombifolia subsp. insularis (Hatus.) Hatus.; Sida rhombifolia subsp. rhombifolia ; Sida rhombifolia var. rhombifolia ; Sida rhombifolia var. rhomboidea (Roxb. ex Fleming) Mast.; Sida rhomboidea Roxb. ex Fleming [Spelling variant]; Sida ruderata Macfad.; Sida unicornis Marais.;
Plant Common Name : Angled Sida, arrow leaf sida, arrow-leaf sida, arrowleaf sida, big Jack, bloom weed, broom weed, broomstick, coffee bush, common sida, country mallow Cuba jute,, Cuban jute, flaxweed, Indian hemp, jelly leaf, jellyleaf, Paddy's lucerne, Pretoria sida, Queensland hemp, rhomboid ilima, shrub sida, sida retusa, sida weed, sida-retusa, teaweed
Plant Family : Malvaceae
Description : Subshrubs; branchlets brown, stellate pubescent. Leaves 2-5 x 1.5-3.5 cm, rhomboid, apex acute, base obtuse or cuneate, margins serrate above the upper half, lower side tomentose; petiole 0.5 to 1 cm, stipule to 1 cm, linear. Flowers axillary, solitary or in clusters, yellow; pedicels to 6 mm, tomentose; calyx broadly campanulate, lobes triangular, to 3 mm, tomentose outside; petals 9 x 5 mm, obovate. Schizocarp enclosed in calyx, semiorbicular, 3 mm long; mericarps 8-10, awned at apex, to 1 mm.
Plant Location in Melghat : Makhala
Medicinal Use / Activity : anti-inflammatory; anti-oxidant; Asthma;
Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: ephedrine; saponin; choline; pseudoephedrine; beta-phenethylamine; vascin; hipaphorine; beta-sitosterol; stigmasterol; sitosterol-3-O-beta-D-glucopyranoside; stigmasterol-3-O-beta-Dglucopyranoside; phaeophytin A; 5,7-dihydroxy-4'-methoxyflavone; cryptolepinone; cryptolepine; scopoletin; scoporone; ethoxy-ferulate; kaempferol; quindolinone; 11-methoxy-quindoline; Sterculic acid; Malvalic acid; Myrstic acid; Palmitic acid; Stearic acid; Stearic acid; Linoleic acid; beta-Phenethylamine; Vascicine; Crytolepinone; Escoporone; Ecdysone; Cholesterol; Campesterol; Spinasterol;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (7):

Beta-sitosterol;

Kaempferol;

Flavone;

Cryptolepine;

Stigmasterol;

Palmitic acid;

Spinasterol;

Plant's Current Status : -
Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142
Reference : Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD (1998) Addiions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants). Technical Bulletin No. VII. The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat. - https://keyserver.lucidcentral.org/weeds/data/media/Html/sida_rhombifolia.htm - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Jelly%20Leaf.html - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/33299 - http://earthmedicineinstitute.com/more/library/medicinal_plants/sida_rhombifolia/ - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21970621 - https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/aed4/a134b15e87d231532fd9013d94bf197cca61.pdf - http://www.mdpi.com/1420_3049/22/1/94/htm
Reference : ~ Jennifer L. McCracken, Sreenivas P. Veeranki, Bill T. Ameredes, William J. Calhoun; "Diagnosis and Management of Asthma in Adults - A Review"; JAMA (2017); 318(3): 279-290 PMID : 28719697

~ Anupama A. Suralkar, Kuldeep K. Gaikwad, Asha S. Jadhav, Gayatri S. Vaidya; "Evaluation of antihistaminic activity of Sida rhombifolia Linn in management of allergic asthma"; International Journal of Institutional Pharmacy and Life Sciences (2014); 4(2): 322-332 PMID :

~ Mah SH, Teh SS and Ee GC; "Anti-inflammatory, anti-cholinergic and cytotoxic effects of Sida rhombifolia"; Pharm Biol. (2017); 55(1): 920-928 PMID : 28152649

~ Dinda B, Das N, Dinda S, Dinda M and SilSharma I; "The genus Sida L. - A traditional medicine: Its ethnopharmacological, phytochemical and pharmacological data for commercial exploitation in herbal drugs industry"; J Ethnopharmacol (2015); 176: 135-76 PMID : 26497766

~ Chen S; "Natural products triggering biological targets - a review of the anti-inflammatory phytochemicals targeting the arachidonic acid pathway in allergy asthma and rheumatoid arthritis."; Curr Drug Targets (2011); 12(3): 288-301 PMID : 20955151

~ Park HS, Kim SR, Kim JO and Lee YC; "The roles of phytochemicals in bronchial asthma"; Molecules (2010); 15(10): 6810-34 PMID : 20924320

~ Balaji Kasirajan, Rajadurai Maruthamuthu, Vidhya Gopalakrishnan, Krithika Arumugam, Hudson Asirvatham, Vidya Murali, Ramya Mohandass and Anusha Bhaskar; "A database for medicinal plants used in treatment of asthma"; Bioinformation (2007); 2(3): 105-106 PMID :

~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Additions to the Flora of Melghat (some rare and uncommon plants)"; The Directorate Project Tiger, Melghat (1998); Technical Bulletin No. VII PMID :

~ Das, DC.; Sinha, NK.; Chattopadhyay JC.; Das M. and Samanta P.; "The use of medicinal plants for the treatment of Gonorrhea and Syphilis in south west Bengal of India"; International Journal of Phytomedicine (2013); 5: 14-17 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 - Mallow family
Genus : Sida L. - fanpetals
Species : Sida rhombifolia Linn.

Sida rhombifolia Linn.
Sida rhombifolia Linn.
Sida rhombifolia Linn.
Sida rhombifolia Linn.
Sida rhombifolia Linn.