Ficus arnottiana (Miq.) Miq.
Ficus arnottiana (Miq.) Miq.
Ficus arnottiana (Miq.) Miq.
Ficus arnottiana (Miq.) Miq.
Ficus arnottiana (Miq.) Miq.
MT084 : Ficus arnottiana (Miq.) Miq.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 480 |
| Synonym | : | Ficus aegrophylla Hort. Schoenb. ex Miq.;
Ficus caulobotrya (Miq.) Miq.;
Ficus populeaster Desf.;
Ficus populifolia Wall.;
Urostigma arnottianum Miq.;
Urostigma caulobotryum Miq.;
Urostigma cordifolium Dalz. & Gibs.;
Urostigma courtallense Miq.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | K- Gadani Tipli, Indian Rock Fig, rock pipal, waved-leaved fig tree, wild pipal • Hindi: bassari, palhi, paras pipal, pilkhan, pimpli • Marathi: payar, kadak payer, pipli • Tamil: kotiyarasu • Malayalam: amakanniyam, kallal, kallarayal • Telugu: kallaravi, konda ravi • Kannada: kaadaarasa, kadu aswatha, kalla aswattha • Sanskrit: parisah, plavaka, plavanga |
| Plant Family | : | Moraceae |
| Description | : | Deciduous independent trees, to 10 m high, aerial roots absent; bark surface grey-brown, smooth, tuberculate-lenticellate; blaze pink; latex milky. Leaves simple, alternate spiral; stipules 3-5 cm long, lateral, reddish-green, glabrous, cauducous, leaving annular scars; petiole 3-10 cm long, slender, red, not articulated, glabrous; lamina 6-20 x 5-13 cm, broadly ovate, base deeply cordate, apex caudate-acuminate, margin entire, slightly undulate, glabrous, coriaceous; 5-7-ribbed from base, lateral nerves 5-8 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers unisexual; inflorescence a syconia, in axillary pairs or crowded near the apex, sessile or shortly pedunculate, globose, glabrous, orifice plane; bracts 3, 1 x 2-2.5 mm, ovate, thin, eventually cauducous; flowers of 4 kinds; tepals red, more or less gamophyllous, 3-4 lobed, fleshy; male flowers sessile, around the orifice and sparsely scattered in the interior of the syconia; stamens 1, subsessile; anthers 2-celled, ovate-oblong, dehiscence longitudinally; female flowers sessile, sparsely scattered in the interior of syconia, cream, somewhat reddish on stylar side; ovary superior, depressed globose; style filiform; stigma flat gall flowered stalked; neutar flowers few. Synconium yellowish-brown when ripe; 5-7 mm across; achenes smooth. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Amongst rocks in valleys |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | anti-ulcer, astringent, aphrodisiac, demulcent, depurative, emollient; It is also useful against inflammation, Diarrhea, diabetes, burning sensation,
leprosy, scabies, wounds and skin diseases. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Beta-sitosterol; friedelin; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2): Beta-sitosterol; Friedelin; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Common |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/229770
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Indian%20Rock%20Fig.html
- https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0975357511800490
- https://www.cabdirect.org/cabdirect/abstract/20093331526 |
| Reference | : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Shubhangi Pawar and D A Patil; "Observations on folkloric medicinal plants of Jalgaon district, Maharashtra"; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (2004); 3(4): 437-442 PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Rosales |
| Family | : Moraceae - Mulberry family |
| Genus | : Ficus |
| Species | : Ficus arnottiana (Miq.) Miq. |