Eriolaena hookeriana Wight & Arn.
Eriolaena hookeriana Wight & Arn.
Eriolaena hookeriana Wight & Arn.
MT010 : Eriolaena hookeriana Wight & Arn.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 46 |
| Synonym | : | - |
| Plant Common Name | : | Bhondra-Dhaman G-Bhondar |
| Plant Family | : | Malvaceae |
| Description | : | Shrubs or small trees, up to 10 m tall; herbaceous portions stellate-tomentose. laves 10 - 13 cm in diam., roundish to cordate, cordate at base, acuminate at apex, irregularly crenate-dentate, dotted with small tufts of stellate hairs above and finely rusty pubescent beneath, nerves 5 - 9 at base, prominent beneath; petioles 2 - 11 cm long, rather stout, stellate-tomentose. Flowers many, in axillary, peduncled cymes; peduncles up to 15 cm long, stout, stellate-hairy becoming glabrous with age; involucral bracts shorter than calyx, multisect, segments linear; pedicels up to 4 cm long. Sepals 1.5 - 2 x 0.2 - 0.3 cm, linear-lanceolate, often subfalcate, pubescent outside, stellate-hairy and glandular at base inside. petals 3 - 4 cm long, obovate, ca 5 mm broad towards the apex, claws densely pubescent with in. Staminal column 1.5 - 2 cm long, antheriferous throughout its length; filaments up to 1 cm long; anthers many-seriate. Ovary ca 5 mm long, stellate-hairy; styles 2 - 2.4 cm long, pubescent; stigmas 8 - 10-lobed. Capsules 6 - 10, up to 4 x 2 cm, ovoid to pyriform, pointed, woody, loculicidal, 10-valved, valves downy, tubercled or pitted or smooth, 6 - 19 mm long, winged above, glossy. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | In Churakund, Harisal |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Antimicrobial, Anticancer, Wound healing |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: malvalic acid; sterculic acid; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0009308479900513
- http://efloraindia.nic.in/efloraindia/taxonList.action?id=3317&type=4
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/31286 |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Malvales |
| Family | : Malvaceae - Mallow family |
| Genus | : Eriolaena |
| Species | : Eriolaena hookeriana Wight & Arn. |