Ficus racemosa L. - clustertree
Ficus racemosa L. - clustertree
Ficus racemosa L. - clustertree
Ficus racemosa L. - clustertree
MT088 : Ficus racemosa L.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | 484 |
| Synonym | : | Covellia glomerata (Roxb.) Miq.;
Covellia lanceolata (Buch.-Ham. ex Roxb.) Miq.;
Covellia mollis Miq.;
Ficus acidula King.;
Ficus chittagonga Miq.;
Ficus glomerata Roxb.;
Ficus glomerata var. chittagonga (Miq.) King.;
Ficus glomerata var. elongata King.;
Ficus glomerata var. miquelii King.;
Ficus glomerata var. mollis (Miq.) King.;
Ficus goolereea Roxb.;
Ficus henrici King.;
Ficus lanceolata Buch-Ham. ex Roxb.;
Ficus lucescens Bl.;
Ficus mollis (Miq.) Miq.;
Ficus racemosa var. miquelii (King) Corner.;
Ficus racemosa var. mollis (Miq.) Barrett.;
Ficus racemosa var. vesca (F. Müll. ex Miq.) Barrett.;
Ficus semicostata F. M. Bailey.;
Ficus trichocarpa Decne.;
Ficus vesca F. Müll. ex Miq.;
Urostigma lucescens (Bl.) Miq.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Umbar, K- Alarva, Cluster fig • Hindi: Goolar • Manipuri: Heibong • Telugu: Paidi • Sanskrit: Udumbara • Marathi: Umber • Malayalam: Atti • Tamil: Atti • Kannada: Rumadi • Oriya: Dimri • Nepali: Gular, Dumri |
| Plant Family | : | Moraceae |
| Description | : | Deciduous trees, to 30 m high; bole buttressed; bark 8-10 mm thick, surface reddish-brown or yellowish-brown smooth, coarsely flaky, fibrous; blaze creamy pink; latex milky; young shoots and twigs finely white hairy, soon glabrous; branchlets 1.5-3 mm thick, puberulous. Leaves simple, alternate, stipules 12-18 mm long, lanceolate, linear-lanceolate, pubescent, often persistent on young shoots; petiole 10-50 mm long, slender, grooved above, becoming brown scurfy; lamina 6-15 x 3.5-6 cm, ovate, obovate, elliptic-oblong, elliptic-lanceolate, elliptic-ovate or oblong-ovate, base acute, obtuse or cuneate, apex narrowed, blunt or acute, margin entire, membranous, glabrous, blistered appearance on drying; 3-ribbed from base, 4-8 pairs, slender, pinnate, prominent beneath, intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers unisexual; inflorescence a syconia, on short leafless branches or warty tubercles of trunk or on larger branches, subglobose to pyriform, smooth, often lenticellate-verrucose; peduncle 3-12 mm long, stout, orifice plane or slightly sunken, closed by 5-6 apical bracts; internal bristles none; basal bracts 3, 1-2 m long, ovate-triangular, obtuse, persistent; flowers of unisexual, 4 kinds; male flowers near the mouth of receptacles, in 2-3 rings, sessile, much compressed; tepals 3-4, dentate-lacerate, lobes jointed below, red, glabrous; stamens 2, exserted; filaments 1 mm, connate below; anthers oblong, parallel; female flowers sessile or very shortly stalked among gall flowers; tepals 3-4, dentate-lacerate, lobes jointed below, red, glabrous, ovary superior, sessile or substipitate, red spotted; style 2-3 mm long, glabrous, simple; stigma clavate; gall flowers long stalked; ovary dark red, rough; style short. Syconium 2.5 x 2 cm, orange, pink or dark crimson; achene granulate. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | Pastalai, Churni |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Mulvyadh, The leaves are used in the treatment of Diarrhea. The bark is astringent. It is used in the treatment of haematuria, menorrhagia, and haemoptysis. The fruit is astringent. It is used in the treatment of haematuria, menorrhagia, and haemoptysis. The fruit, when filled with sugar, is considered to be very cooling. A fluid that exudes from the cut roots of the tree is considered to be a powerful tonic when drunk for several days together. The sap is a popular remedy in Bombay, that is applied locally to mumps and other inflammatory glandular enlargements, and is also used in the treatment of gonorrhea. The root is chewed as a treatment for tonsilitis. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: bergapten; bergaptol; lanosterol; Beta-sitosterol; Stigmasterol; lupen-3-one; phytosterolin; lupeol; ceryl behenate; lupeol acetate; alpha-amyrin acetate; leucocyanidin; leucoanthocyanin; campestrol; stigmasterol; isofucosterol; alpha-amyrin; tannic acid; alpha-humulene; alloaromadendrene; germacrene; bicyclogermacrene; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (6): Lupeol; Beta-sitosterol; Alpha-amyrin; Alpha-humulene; Stigmasterol; Tannic acid; |
| Plant's Current Status | : | Common |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve
- http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=ficus+racemosa
- http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/Goolar.html
- https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/31344
- https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277959076
- https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/144d/956c384a6d99c42283a366561cd295e3f2ce.pdf |
| Reference | : | ~ Chellaiah Muthu, Muniappan Ayyanar, Nagappan Raja and Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu; "Medicinal plants used by traditional healers in Kancheepuram District of Tamil Nadu, India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2006); 2(43): 1-10 PMID : ~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 PMID : ~ J. Lenin Bapuji and S. Venkat Ratnam; "Traditional Uses of Some Medicinal Plants by tribals of Gangaraju Madugula Mandal of Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh"; Ethnobotanical Leaflets (2009); 13: 388-98 PMID : ~ 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 : ~ 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 : ~ 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 | : Hamamelididae |
| Order | : Urticales |
| Family | : Moraceae - Mulberry family |
| Genus | : Ficus L. - fig |
| Species | : Ficus racemosa L. - clustertree |