Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MH020 : Sida cordata (Burm.f.) Borss.

Plant Category : Herbs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 39

Synonym : Melochia cordata Burn.f.; Sida humilis Cay.; Sida humilis var. veronicifolia (Lamk.) Mast.; Sida morifolia Cay.; Sida radicans Cay.; Sida unilocularis L’Herit; Sida veronicifolia Lamk.; Sida veronicifolia var. humilis (Cay.) K.Sch.;

Plant Common Name : Fuddi, Long-stalk Sida, Heart-Leaf Sida, Country-mallow, flannelweed, Heartleaf Fanpetals, bhuinii, Bhumi petari, Bhoybal

Plant Family : Malvaceae

Description : Prostrate or semiprostrate herb, up to 80 cm tall. Profusely branched at the base, all parts stellate pubescent, mixed with simple spreading hairs on branches, petioles, pedicels and calyx. Leaves 1-5.5 cm long, 1-5 cm broad, narrowly to broadly ovate, lanceolate in terminal branches, crenate to serrate, cordate or rounded at base, acuminate at apex, lower surface stellate pubescent, upper one with stellate and simple, strigose hairs; stipules filiform, 2-4 mm long; petiole 1-4 cm long. Flowers axillary, solitary or pseudoraceme by reduction of leaves in the terminal parts; pedicel 1.5-2.5 cm long, in fruit up to 3.5 cm, jointed slightly above the middle. Calyx fused to the middle, 4-5 mm long and broad; lobes c. 2mm broad, acuminate. Corolla pale yellow, 7-8 mm across. Staminal column 2-3 mm long, simple hairy. Fruit depressed globose, 3-4 mm across, pubescent at the top, beaked; mericarps 5, dehiscent, membranous, smooth, disintegrated at the radial surfaces, 2.5 mm long. Seeds brown, c. 2 mm long, glabrous.

Plant Location in Melghat : On forest floor amongst tall grasses

Medicinal Use / Activity : The juice of the plant is applied to boils and pimples. The root is tonic. The juice of the root is used to treat indigestion. A paste of the root is applied as a poultice to remove pus from boils and wounds. It is also used in the treatment of gonorrhea and other venereal diseases. The juice of the leaves is used to treat cuts and wounds.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: -

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0):

Plant's Current Status : Common

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=200013758

Reference : ~ Dinda B, Das N, Dinda S, Dinda M and SilSharma I; "The genus Sida L. - A traditional medicine: Its ethnopharmacological, phytochemical and pharmacological data for commercial exploitation in herbal drugs industry"; J Ethnopharmacol (2015); 176: 135-76 PMID : 26497766

~ 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 : Dilleniidae
Order : Malvales
Family : Malvaceae - Mallow family
Genus : Sida L. - fanpetals
Species : Sida cordata (Burm. f.) Waalkes - heartleaf fanpetals

Sida cordata (Burm. f.) Waalkes - heartleaf fanpetals