Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MS013 : Sida orientalis Cab.

Plant Category : Shrubs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 41

Synonym : Sida spinosa L.; Malachodendron corchoroides J.F.Gmel. (unresolved); Malva spinosa (L.) E.H.L.Krause; Malvinda alba (L.) Medik.; Malvinda alnifolia Medik. (unresolved); Malvinda angustifolia (Mill.) Medik.; Malvinda spinosa (L.) Medik.; Malvinda spinosa (L.) Moench; Sida affinis J.A.Schmidt [Illegitimate]; Sida angustifolia Lam. [Illegitimate]; Sida angustifolia Mill.; Sida angustifolia C. Presl; Sida angustifolia var. major C.Presl; Sida antillensis Urb.; Sida bicolor Cav.; Sida brachypetala DC.; Sida carpinifolia f. balbisiana (DC.) Millsp.; Sida emarginata Willd.; Sida heterocarpa Engelm. ex A.Gray; Sida milleri DC.; Sida minor Macfad.; Sida pimpinellifolia Mill.; Sida spinosa var. angustifolia (Lam.) Griseb.; Sida subdistans A.St.-Hil. & Naudin; Sida tenuicaulis Hook.f.; Sida truncata L'Hér. [Illegitimate]; Sida ulmifolia Mill.; Stewartia corchoroides Forssk. (Unresolved)

Plant Common Name : prickly fan-petals, prickly sida, spiny sida, teaweed • Bengali: bon methi • Gujarati: kantalo bal • Hindi: baryar, gulsakari • Konkani: ganget • Malayalam: kurunthotti • Marathi: bala, jungali methi • Sanskrit: gangeruki, kantakinibala, mahabala, nagabala, sahadeva, visvadeva • Tamil: mayir-manikkam • Telugu: nagabala • Urdu: baryar;

Plant Family : Malvaceae

Description : Subshrubs erect, to 2 m tall; stems densely stellate woolly. Leaves dimorphic; stipules subulate, 3-5 mm, caducous; petiole of lower leaves ca. 2 mm, of upper leaves 8-10 mm, densely shortly stellate woolly; blades on proximal part of stem ovate, 4-7 × ca. 3 cm, both surfaces densely shortly stellate woolly, base nearly rounded, margin crenate, apex acute, those on distal part of stem linear-lanceolate to lanceolate, 2-4 × 0.5-1 cm. Flowers solitary, axillary or terminal. Pedicel 1.5-3 cm, densely shortly stellate woolly and with long silk hairs, articulate near apex. Calyx cup-shaped, ca. 8 mm, abaxially densely stellate woolly, lobes triangular, apices acute. Corolla yellow; petals ca. 14 mm. Filament tube ca. 6 mm, hirsute. Schizocarp ± disk-shaped, ca. 6 mm in diam.; mericarps 8 or 9, ca. 4 mm, wrinkled, minutely hairy, apex not awned. Fl. autumn-winter.

Plant Location in Melghat : Amongst grasses of forest undergrowth

Medicinal Use / Activity : Leaves are demulcent and refrigerant and are useful in gonorrhea, gleet and scalding urine. Decoction of the root-bark and root is used in mild cases of debility and fever. Leaves are bruised in water, strained through cloth and administered in the form of a draught. Root is used in decoction. The stems are rich in mucilage and are employed internally as an emollient, diuretic, and as a febrifuge with pepper. The roots are bitter, cooling, and anthelmintic.

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: -

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Plant's Current Status : -

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=2&taxon_id=200013763 - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/264286 - http://www.holistic_online.com/Herbal_Med/_Herbs/h_sida_spinosa.htm - https://www.medindia.net/alternativemedicine/bala.asp

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 orientalis Cab.

Sida orientalis Cab.
Sida orientalis Cab.