Triumfetta pilosa Wall.
Triumfetta pilosa Wall.
MH477 : Triumfetta pilosa Wall.
| Plant Category | : | Herbs |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
| Synonym | : | Triumfetta obliqua Roth; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Nichardi |
| Plant Family | : | Malvaceae |
| Description | : | Perennial, basally woody, c. 1.5 m tall herb. Stem tuberculate, sparingly covered with bulbous based, yellowish-brown, stellate or simple patent hairs or glabrescent. Leaves 5-costate, narrowly ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, 5-12.5 cm long, 1.3-4.5 cm broad, stellate hairy on both sides, acuminate at the apex, sub-cordate or obtuse at the base, coarsely serrate; petiole 1-3 (-5) cm long, pilose; stipules linear-lanceolate, 8-10 mm long, acute, pilose. Inflorescence a many flowered, axillary or antiphyllous short peduncled cyme. Flowers yellow, c. 1 cm across, pedicel c. 2-3 mm long, densely hairy. Sepals lorate, 9-10 mm long, cucul¬late and minutely awned at the apex, stellate hairy outside. Petals narrowly oblanceolate, 7-8 mm long, obtuse, hairy at the base. Stamens mostly 10, as long as petals. Carpels 4; ovary globose, 4-loculed, hairy; style subulate, 7-8 mm long, stigma 4-lobed. Capsule subglobose, densely tomentose, 1.1-1.3 cm long, 1.2-1.4 cm in diameter including 6-8 mm long, uncinate spines with patent hairs all round. Seeds dark brown, shining, planoconvex. Fl. Per.: June-November. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Grasslands |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | An infusion of the leaf is drunk to treat colic and diarrhoea, whereas in East Africa an extract of the leaf is recorded to be drunk as a purgative. A leaf maceration is used as an eye bath for the treatment of eye problems. The crushed leaf and twig are applied as a paste on sores. The bark and fresh leaves are astringent. They are used in the treatment of diarrhea. The leaves and flowers are used for the treatment of leprosy. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book |
| Reference | : | ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
(2018 - 2019); Book PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Equisetopsida |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Malvales |
| Family | : Malvaceae |
| Genus | : Triumfetta |
| Species | : Triumfetta pilosa Wall. |