Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MT083 : Trema politoria (Wall. ex Planch.) Bl.

Plant Category : Tree

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 477

Synonym : Celtis politoria Wall.; Sponia politoria Wall. ex Planch.;

Plant Common Name : -

Plant Family : Cannabaceae

Description : A small tree upto 5 m tall. Leaves 7-10 x 2-4 cm, obolong-lanceolate, acuminate, serrulate, base rounded or subcordate, 3 or obscurely 5-nerved, rough on both surfaces with scabrid hairs. Stipules lateral, linear, longer than petiole, caducous. Inflorescence in axillary clusters; male cymes shorter than petiole. Female flowers longer than petiole. Drupe small, ovoid with persistent calyx. Fl. Per.: April-June.

Plant Location in Melghat : On Chikhaldara plateaux

Medicinal Use / Activity : used to check vomiting

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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 - https://indiabiodiversity.org/species/show/253318 - http://www.efloras.org/florataxon.aspx?flora_id=5&taxon_id=242426018 - http://www.theplantlist.org/tpl1.1/record/tro_33300181

Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ Vir Singh, R. D. Gaur; "Rangeland Ecosystems in the Himalayan Mountains"; Daya Books (2008); 108 PMID :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass :
Order : Rosales
Family : Cannabaceae
Genus : Trema
Species : Trema politoria (Wall. ex Planch.) Bl.

Trema politoria (Wall. ex Planch.) Bl.
Trema politoria (Wall. ex Planch.) Bl.
Trema politoria (Wall. ex Planch.) Bl.