| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 42 |
| Synonym | : | Abelmoschus acuminatus (Alef.) M�ll.Berol;
Azanza acuminata Alef.;
Bupariti populnea (L.) Rothm.;
Hibiscus bacciferus Blume;
Hibiscus blumei Kuntze;
Hibiscus populifolius Salisb.;
Hibiscus populneoides Roxb.;
Hibiscus populneus L.;
Malvaviscus populneus (L.) Gaertn.; Parita populnea (L.) Scop.;
Thespesia howii S.Y. Hu;
Thespesia macrophylla Blume(=)Thespesia populneoides (Roxb.) Kostel.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Paras Pipal, milo, milo tree, Indian tulip tree, Bendy tree, Seaside Mahoe, Portia tree, Gajadanda Indian tulip tree, Aden apple, Portia tree � Hindi: Paras pipal � Malayalam: Puvarasu � Bengali: Palaspipal � Tamil: Puvarasu |
| Plant Family | : | Malvaceae |
| Description | : | Trees, to 15 m high, bark dark brown; blaze yellowish-pink; branchlets densely covered with minute scales, glabrescent. Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate; stipules 4-10 mm long, free, lateral, linear to lanceolate, cauducous; petiole 5-10 cm, slender, swollen tipped, scaly; lamina 5-12.7 x 5.5-15 cm, orbicular or ovate, base cordate or truncate, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire or dentate, coriaceous, with peltate scales above, glabrescent or stellate-tomentose beneath; 5-7 nerved from the base, palmate, prominent, lateral nerves 4-5 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae subscalariform, prominent, often a glandular pore in one or more of the intercostal spaces beneath. Flowers bisexual, yellow, showy, solitary or in cymes, axillary or terminal; pedicels 20-50 mm long, jointed near the base, glabrescent; involucellar bracts 3-5 or 0, 5-15 x 2-3 mm, oblong-lanceolate, acute, subcoriaceous, densely scaly, cauducous; calyx cupular, minutely 5 toothed or 5-parted, accrescent and flattened in fruit, scaly outside, densely serious inside; corolla light yellow with dark purple centre, fading to purplish-pink, broadly campanulate; petals 5, 5-7.5 x 4-6 cm, obliquely obovate, narrowed and fleshy at base, rounded at apex, densely scaly outside, glabrous inside, ciliate at base, twisted; staminal tube 15-25 mm long, 5-toothed at apex; filaments ascending; anthers reniform; ovary superior, globose to ovoid, 5-celled, ovules 2-3 in each cell; style ca. 3 cm long; stigma club shaped, 5-furrowed. Fruit a capsule, globose, indehiscent, depressed, scaly, ultimately glabrescent; seeds many, ovoid, channelled along the back, pubescent. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Anti-cancer, Anti-bacterial, anti-oxidant, Wound healing activity, Antioxidant activity, anti-implantat ion activity, Alzheimer�s disease, Antinociceptive and anti-inflammatory, anti-inflammatory, analgesic and anti-pyretic properties, Antioxidant , anti-diabetic activity, Anti-Psoriatic, Synergistic activity, Antibacterial Activity, anti-ulcer activity, Immunomodulatory Activity, alpha-Amylase Inhibitory, |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Mansonone E, (+)-gossypol (isolated from dichloromethane extracts of the wood and dark heartwood) Populene D (CID: 24970698), Populene C (CID: 24970696); Fruits: Thespesin; Herbacetin;(+)-gossypol ; calycopterin;
Seeds: palmitic acid; stearic acid; oleic acid; linoleic acids;
Quercetin-7-O-rhamno-glucoside; Mansonone H; Populene A; Catacerebroside B; Beta-sitosterol; Beta-daucosterol; Palmitic acid; Kaempferol; Quercetin; populneol; populnin; populnetin; rutin; gossipetin; gossypol; Lupeol; sesquiterpenoidal quinones
viz ; thespeson; thespone;
Mansonones C;
Mansonones D;
Mansonones E;
Mansonones F; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (7): Lupeol; Beta-sitosterol; Quercetin; Rutin; Kaempferol; Gossypol; Palmitic acid; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | - |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Indian%20Tulip%20Tree.html
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Thespesia+populnea
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/231322 |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Omesh Bajpai, Jitendra Pandey and Lal Babu Chaudhary; "Ethnomedicinal Uses of Tree Species by Tharu Tribes in the Himalayan Terai Region of India"; Research Journal of Medicinal Plant (2016); 10(1): 19-41 PMID : ~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 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 | : Thespesia Sol. ex Corrêa - thespesia |
| Species | : Thespesia populnea (L.) Sol. ex Corrêa |
