Combretum decandrum Jacq.
Combretum decandrum Jacq.
MC068 : Combretum decandrum Jacq.
| Plant Category | : | Climbers |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
| Synonym | : | Combretum alternifolium Pers.;
Combretum latipaniculatum Rusby;
Combretum nicoyanum Pittier;
Combretum palmeri Rose;
Combretum punctulatum Pittier;
Gonocarpus jacquinii Ham.;
Poivrea alternifolia (Pers.) DC.;
Combretum roxburghii; |
| Plant Common Name | : | White Combretum • Bengali: Alang, Alena • Hindi: Paibal, Punk |
| Plant Family | : | COMBRETACEAE |
| Description | : | a large climber with branchlets reddish hairy when young. Leaves are opposite; leaf-stalk 5-7 mm, leaf blade oblong-elliptic to obovate-oblong, 6-13 x 3-6 cm, both surfaces mostly hairless, base blunt or blunt-rounded, tip blunt, with a tail; lateral veins in 6 or 7 pairs. Flowers are borne at branch-ends and in leaf-axils, in laxly compound spikes 5-15 cm, usually grouped at branchlet tip and forming a lax, leafy panicle. Bracts are persistent at full flowering, lanceshaped, 4-6 mm, woolly. Sepal tube is distally cup-shaped, 3-5 mm, below golden woolly; sepals 5, broadly triangular, about 1 mm, tip aristate. Petals are 5, obovate-oblong, about 2 mm, both surfaces yellow hairy. Stamens are 10, only slightly protruding, about 2 mm, not exceeding petals. Fruit is glossy, cylindric, 5-winged, 2-3 × 0.8-1 cm, hairless, tip tapering. Flowering: October-June. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book |
| Reference | : | ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
(2018 - 2019); Book PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : |
| Order | : Myrtales |
| Family | : Combretaceae |
| Genus | : Combretum |
| Species | : Combretum decandrum Jacq. |