Glochidion heyneanum (Wight & Arn.) Wight
Glochidion heyneanum (Wight & Arn.) Wight
Glochidion heyneanum (Wight & Arn.) Wight
Glochidion heyneanum (Wight & Arn.) Wight
Glochidion heyneanum (Wight & Arn.) Wight
MT079 : Glochidion heyneanum (Wight & Arn.) Wight
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 466 |
| Synonym | : | Phyllanthus velutinus (Wight) Müll.Arg.;
Bradleia ovata Wall., nom. nud.;
Diasperus asperus (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze.;
Diasperus heyneanus (Wight) Kuntze.;
Diasperus nepalensis (Müll.Arg.) Kuntze.;
Diasperus velutinus (Wight) Kuntze.;
Eriococcus glaucescens Zoll.;
Glochidion asperum (Müll.Arg.) Bedd.;
Glochidion nepalense (Müll.Arg.) Kurz.;
Glochidion velutinum Wight.;
Gynoon heyneanum Wight & Arn.;
Phyllanthus asperus Müll.Arg.;
Phyllanthus heyneanus (Wight) Müll.Arg., nom. illeg.;
Phyllanthus nepalensis Müll.Arg.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | K- Kolia, Velvety Melon Featherfoil, downy melon featherfoil • Malayalam: cathakkatanv • Nepali: kaalikaath |
| Plant Family | : | Euphorbiaceae |
| Description | : | Tomentose trees, to 7 m high, bark brown, rough; branchlets brown Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipules lateral; petiole 3-6 mm, slender, tomentose; lamina 3-15 x 1.5-8 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic-ovate, base acute or oblique, apex acute, obtuse or acuminate at apex, margin entire, coriaceous, densely to sparsely puberulous to glabrous above and velvety tomentose beneath; lateral nerves 4-8 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers unisexual, yellow, solitary or few together in axillary clusters; male flowers: pedicels 5-14 mm long, filiform, tepals 3-3, 1.5-4 x 0.8-2 mm, oblong, lanceolate or oblanceolate, tomentose; stamens 3, 1-2 mm long, connate by their connectives in a column; connectives produced; female flowers: pedicel 1-5 mm long, filiform tomentose; tepals 3+3, oblong, ovate, triangular, lanceolate or linear, densely tomentose; ovary superior, 1-1.5 mm across, subglobose, 3-6 locular; ovules 2 in each cell; style 1-3 mm long, columnar to clavate or occasionally obconic or sometimes free and forming globose mass of connivent lobes; apical lobes 3-6, orbicular, elliptic, oblong or triangular often bilobulate. Fruit a capsule 3-5 x 6-12 mm, depressed, deeply lobed with bilobulate lobes, tomentose; seeds 5-7, 2 x 2.5 mm, grey, smooth; pedicels 5-10 mm long. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | - |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Root in snake bite. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: rotundic acid; Globlin A; Glochidioside; 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://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/12494
- https://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Velvety%20Melon%20Featherfoil.html
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/256826857
- https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12272_011_0305_y
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/284517378 |
| 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 : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Equisetopsida |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Malpighiales |
| Family | : Euphorbiaceae - Spurge family |
| Genus | : Glochidion |
| Species | : Glochidion heyneanum (Wight & Arn.) Wight |