Salix tetrasperma Roxb.
Salix tetrasperma Roxb.
Salix tetrasperma Roxb.
MT132 : Salix tetrasperma Roxb.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
| Synonym | : | Pleiarina populifolia N.Chao & J.Liu; Pleiarina pyrina (Wall. ex Andersson) N.Chao & J.Liu; Pleiarina tetrasperma (Roxb.) N. Chao & G.T. Gong; Salix apiculata Anderss.; Salix azaolana Blanco; Salix calophylla Wall.; Salix cuspidata D. Don; Salix densa Wall.; Salix glabrescens Lindl.; Salix higelii Wimm. ex Anderss.; Salix horsfieldiana Miq.; Salix javanica Anderss.; Salix lenta Fries; Salix myurus Wimm. ex Anderss.; Salix nilagirica Miq.; Salix nobilis Fries; Salix populifolia Anderss.; Salix pyrina Wall.; Salix suaveolens Arderss.; Salix urophylla Lindl.; Salix wallichii Wimm. ex Anderss.; Salix zollingeri Miq.; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Indian Willow • Hindi: Bod, Bains • Manipuri: Ooyum • Bengali: Panijama • Tamil: Atrupalai • Kannada: Niranji • Malayalam: Arali, Atrupala |
| Plant Family | : | SALICACEAE |
| Description | : | Deciduous dioecious trees, to 25 m high, bark 10-12 thick, pale brown, rough, vertically fissured; blaze red; young branches silky pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules lateral, ovate, cauducous; petiole 10-25 mm, slender, glabrous, grooved above; lamina 6-15 x 2-5 cm, ovate, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate; base acute or rounded; apex acuminate; margin serrate, glabrous and shining above, glaucous beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 10-18 pairs, pinnate, close, prominent, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers unisexual, in axillary catkins, to 6 cm long, minutely silky villous; male yellowish; female greenish; bracts ovate, 2 x 2 mm, densely woolly; perianth absent; stamens 5-12, unequal, free, with 2 glands at the base; anthers basifixed; disc yellow, ovary stalked, superior, 1-celled, ovoid, 4-6 ovuled; stigma 2, branched again. Fruit a capsule, 4 mm, 2-4 valved; seeds 1-4, oblong, with long deciduous hairs. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | Dried leaves mixed with sugar given in rheumatism, epilepsy, venereal diseases, stone in the bladder, piles and swellings. Bark used as a febrifuge. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Picein; Sachaliside; salicin; salicortin; salireposide; Vimalin; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (0): |
| Plant's Current Status | : | |
| Plant's Cross Database Reference | : | 259142 |
| Reference | : | Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book |
| Reference | : | ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
(2018 - 2019); Book 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 : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Dilleniidae |
| Order | : Malpighiales |
| Family | : Salicaceae - Willow family |
| Genus | : Salix L. - willow |
| Species | : Salix tetrasperma Roxb. |