Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family   

   MT096 : Miliusa velutina (Dunal) Hook. f. & Thomson

Plant Category : Tree

Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :

Synonym : Guatteria velutina (Dunal) A. DC.; Uvaria velutina Dunal.; Uvaria villosa Roxb.;

Plant Common Name : Velvety Miliusa • Hindi: chopar chilla, dom-sal, domsal • Kannada: anachae, ance, anchae, anche, anchey, anje, dhuma saala • Malayalam: kanakaitha, kanakayitha, kanakkaita, kanakyitha • Sanskrit: rsyaprokta • Telugu: nalla dadduga, nalla dudduga, nalladaduga

Plant Family : Annonaceae

Description : Deciduous tree upto 10 m tall; young branches tomentose. Leaves broadly ovate-elliptic to obovate, acute to shortly acuminate with rounded to cordate base, pilose to subtomentose above, tomentose below. Young leaves covered on both sides with very dense appressed silky hairs. Petiole 2-8 mm, stout, tomentose. Peduncle 6-25 mm, tomentose, extra-axillary or terminal on short, lateral branches, three to six flowered. Pedicel 33-88 mm, tomentose. Bract and bracteole minute, tomentose, caducous. Sepals and petals externally covered with very dense appressed golden hairs. Sepals free, ovate, acute. Petals glabrous within, outer 3-7 x 2-2.5 mm, yellowish, lanceolate, acute, inner 7-18 x 6-10 mm, broadly ovate, subacute. Receptacle convex and glabrous. Stamens 1 mm long, orbicular, connective-tip membranous, scarcely exceeding the locules, locules equal, filament short and thick, perpendicular to the anther. Carpel 2-2.5 mm long, ovary densely woolly dorsally, 2-ovuled, stigma clavate. Monocarps many, ovoid, pilose, 1-2-seeded, stipe tomentose, 5-8 mm.

Plant Location in Melghat : Was found along Betul border

Medicinal Use / Activity : In Ayurveda; Fruits in chronic constipation

Plant's Phytochemicals : COMPOUNDS: acetogenins-A; acetogenins-B

ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0):

Plant's Current Status :

Plant's Cross Database Reference : 259142

Reference :

Reference : ~ Syeda Jumana, Choudhury M. Hasan, Mohammad A. Rashid; "Alkaloids from the stem bark of Miliusa velutina"; Biochemical Systematics and Ecology (2000); 28(5): 483-485 PMID : 10725604

~ 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 :

Kingdom : Plantae - Plants
Phylum : Tracheophyta
Subkingdom : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants
Superdivision : Spermatophyta - Seed plants
Division : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Subclass : Magnoliidae
Order : Magnoliales
Family : Annonaceae
Genus : Miliusa
Species : Miliusa velutina (Dunal) Hook. f. & Thomson

Miliusa velutina (Dunal) Hook. f. & Thomson
Miliusa velutina (Dunal) Hook. f. & Thomson
Miliusa velutina (Dunal) Hook. f. & Thomson