Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MS126 : Sida cordifolia L.

Plant Category : Shrubs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :

Synonym : Sida herbacea; Sida holosericea; Sida rotundifolia Lam.;

Plant Common Name : Heart-Leaf Sida • Assamese: Bor Sonborial • Bengali: Berela • Hindi: Kharinta, Barial • Kannada: Chittuharalu, Hettuti-gida • Malayalam: Katturam • Marathi: Bala, Chikana, Tupkaria • Oriya: Bajromuli • Sanskrit: Badiyalaka, Bala, Baladhya • Nepali: Bariyar, Balu

Plant Family : MALVACEAE

Description : Erect, branched subshrubs to 1.5 m tall; stem green, densely tomentose with minute stellate and spreading simple hairs. Leaves 1.5-5.5 x 1-3.5 cm, ovate, rarely suborbicular, base cordate, margins serrate to the base, apex subobtuse or acute, basally 3-5 nerved, densely stellate-tomentose beneath with simple hairs on nerves and soft tomentose above; petiole to 3.5 cm long, pubescent; solitary or aggregated terminally in to congested corymbiform inflorescence; pedicel to 3 mm long in flower, to 1.2 cm in fruits, articulated above the middle. Calyx 6-7 mm long, prominently 10-ribbed, densely tomentose without. Corolla c. 1 cm across, yellow; petals to 8 x 6 mm, obliquely obovate, apex truncate or slightly emarginate. Staminal column c. 3 mm long. Ovary subglobose, pubescent; styles 8-10; stigma capitate, yellow. Schizocarp 6-7 mm diam., pubescent towards apex; mericarps 8-10, to 3 x 2 mm, trigonous with acute angles, apically 2-awned. Seeds brownish or black.

Plant Location in Melghat : Common, weed in waste lands and along roads

Medicinal Use / Activity : The plant is antipruritic, aphrodisiac, astringent, diuretic, emollient, febrifuge and tonic. It is considered to be useful in the treatment of respiratory system related troubles. The whole plant is boiled, and the water used as an herbal bath, or for washing the skin to relieve itching and the irritation of chickenpox and measles spots. The juiced plant is used as a treatment for rheumatism and spermatorrhea. The leaves are analgesic, demulcent, diuretic, emollient, febrifuge, nervine, stimulant and tonic. A decoction is drunk as a treatment for fevers. The leaves are pounded in water and the juice used in the treatment of spermatorrhea and gonorrhea. They are cooked and eaten as a treatment for bleeding piles. The fresh leaves are bruised and then applied as a poultice on boils in order to promote suppuration. They are used in the treatment of conjuctivitis. The stems are considered demulcent, emollient, febrifuge and diuretic. The bark is considered to be cooling. It is useful in the treatment of problems related to the blood, throat and urinary system; and is also used to treat conditions such as piles, phthisis, insanity etc. The root bark powder, combined with milk and sugar, is used in the treatment of frequent micturition and leukorrhea. The roots are considered to be astringent, cooling, stomachic and tonic. An infusion is used in the treatment of nervous and urinary diseases; and also for disorders of the blood and bile, asthma and as a heart tonic. Combined with ginger (Zingiber officinale), the root is used in the treatment of intermittent fevers with shivering fits. The juice of the roots is applied topically as a healing application for wounds.he seeds are considered aphrodisiac. They are used in the treatment of gonorrhea, cystitis, colds and tenesmus.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: asparagin; ephedrine; pseudo-ephedrine; betaine; Coronaric acid; HEXACOSANOIC ACID; Hypaphorine; MALVALIC ACID; palmitic acid; Peganine; STERCULIC ACID; Vasicinol; VASICINONE;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (1):

Palmitic acid;

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 :

~ Nduche, M.U. and Okwulehie, I.C.; "ETHNOMEDICINAL SURVEY OF PLANTS USED IN TREATING SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASES IN ABIA STATE, NIGERIA"; Review of Plant Studies (2014); 1(2): 1-9 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 cordifolia L. - ilima

Sida cordifolia L. - ilima
Sida cordifolia L. - ilima
Sida cordifolia L. - ilima
Sida cordifolia L. - ilima
Sida cordifolia L. - ilima