Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MS016 : Helicteres isora L.

Plant Category : Shrubs

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 47

Synonym : Helicteres brevior Mill.; Helicteres chrysocalyx Miq. ex Mast.; Helicteres grewiifolia DC.; Helicteres macrophylla Wight ex Wight & Arn.; Helicteres roxburghii G. Don; Isora corylifolia Schott & Endl.;

Plant Common Name : Murad Sheng, K-Korajbhoti, G-Aite, East-Indian screw tree, Nut-leaved screw tree • Hindi: Maror phali • Marathi: Murud sheng • Sanskrit: Mriga Shringa • Kannada: Yedmuri • Telugu: Valambiri • Tamil: Vadampiri • Bengali: Antamora • Nepali: Mrigasingaa, Phaarsaa,Kapaase, Marorphali

Plant Family : Malvaceae

Description : Large shrubs or small trees; bark pale greyish, finely wrinkled; young shoots stellate- tomentose. Leaves 5-12 x 3-8 cm, obovate to suborbicular, base cordate, margin irregularly crenate- serrate, apex acute or acuminate, 3-5-nerved at the base, scabrous above and stellately tomentose below; petioles to 1.2 cm long. Flowers axillary, solitary or in few-flowered cymes; bracts 2-3 mm long, linear, 2 brown glands present in the axil of bracts; pedicel to 6 mm long. Calyx slightly yellow, persistent, tubular, splitting in to 5 irregular lobes; tube 1.5-2 cm long , densely stellate hairy without. Petals 5, unequal, 2-2.5 cm long, obovate, clawed, crimson, fading to pale blue. Staminal column 3-3.5 cm long, cylindric; stamens 10 ; staminodes 5. Ovary 2-2.5 mm long, placed at tip of gynophore, 5-lobed, 5-celled; ovules many; style 5; stigma subulate. Follicles 5, 4-6 cm long, spirally twisted, stellate-tomentose, beaked. Seeds 2-3 mm long, angular, black, wrinkled.

Plant Location in Melghat : -

Medicinal Use / Activity : Treat snake bite, Diarrhea and constipation of new born baby. The extract of the seeds cures dysentery and stomach pain. The root and stem bark are expectorant, demulcent, astringent, galactofuge, and a remedy for scabies. The stem bark is also used for treating Diarrhea and dysentery; anti-oxidant, hypolipidaemic, anti-bacterial and antiplasmid activities, cardiac anti-oxidant, antiperoxidative potency, brain-antioxidation potency, anti-cancer activity, antinociceptive activity, Hepatoprotective activity, anti-Diarrheal activity and wormicidal activity;

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: 49-O-b -D-glucopyranosyl rosmarinic acid; 4,49-O-di-b -D-glucopyranosyl rosmarinic acid; 49-O-b -Dglucopyranosyl isorinic acid; rosmarinic acid; trifolin; hibifolin; Cucurbitacin B; Iso-cucurbitacin B; betulic acid; daucosterol; sitosterol; isorin; Helicterins A; Helicterins B; Helicterins C; Helicterins D; Helicterins E; Helicterins F;

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2):

Cucurbitacin;

Cucurbitacin B;

Plant's Current Status : -

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference : Dhore M. A. (1984) The flora of melghat tiger reserve - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/32642 - http://www.flowersofindia.net/catalog/slides/East_Indian%20Screw%20Tree.html - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4025269/ - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2846480/ - http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Helicteres+isora

Reference : ~ 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 :

~ Tambekar D. H., D. S. Jaitalkar and M. V. Kavitkar; "STUDIES ON ANTIMICROBIAL POTENTIAL OF MEDICINAL PLANTS FROM LONAR LAKE"; Science Research Reporter (2012); 2(3): 268-273 PMID :

~ Kavishankar, G.B; Lakshmidevi, N.; Murthy, S.M.; Prakash, H.S. and Niranjana, S.R.; "Diabetes and medicinal plants-A review"; Int J Pharm Biomed Sci (2011); 2(3): 65-80 PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass :
Order : Malvales
Family : Malvaceae - Mallow family
Genus : Helicteres
Species : Helicteres isora L.

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