Streblus asper Lour.
Streblus asper Lour.
Streblus asper Lour.
Streblus asper Lour.
MT137 : Streblus asper Lour.
| Plant Category | : | Tree |
| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. | : | |
| Synonym | : | Achymus pallens Soland. ex Bl.; Albrandia gaudichaudii (Steud.) D. Dietr.; Albrandia orientalis (Bl.) D. Dietr.; Calius lactescens Blanco; Cudrania crenata Wright; Diplothorax tonkinensis Gagnep.; Epicarpurus asper (Retz.) Steud.; Epicarpurus gaudichaudii Steud.; Epicarpurus orientalis Bl.; Morus indica Ser.; Streblus lactescens (Blanco) Bl.; Streblus zeylanica Kurz; Trophis aculeata Roth; Trophis aspera Retz.; Trophis cochinchinensis Poir.; Trophis zeylanica Koen. ex Bl.; Vanieria crenata (Wright) Chun; |
| Plant Common Name | : | Sand Paper Tree, Siamese rough bush, Toothbrush tree • Hindi: Daheya, Dahia, Karchanna, Rusa, Sahora, Sihora • Marathi: poi, karera, kharoli, kharota, sahor • Tamil: kurripila, kuttippirai, parayan, pasuna • Malayalam: parakam, paruva, sakhotavrksam, tinda-parua • Telugu: baranika, baranki, barinika • Kannada: akhor moranu, mitala • Bengali: sehora, sahra, shewra, shaora • Oriya: hirtonimranu • Assamese: khorua, saura gach • Khasi: dieng sohkhyrdang • Sanskrit: akshadhara, bhutavasa, bhutavriksha, dhukavasa, gavakshi, karkashachhada • Nepali: Bedulaa, Kaaksee, Sihor, Sodaa, Daatun |
| Plant Family | : | MORACEAE |
| Description | : | Evergreen, dioecious or rarely monoecious trees, to 10 m high, bark 10-20 mm thick, light grey, smooth, lenticellate, fibrous; blaze creamy yellow; exudation milky white latex; branches often drooping; branchlets on trunk often arrested and thorny. Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules 2-5 mm long, lateral, lanceolate, adpressedly hairy, cauducous; petiole to 4 mm long, slender, pubescent; lamina 3-10 x 1.2-5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-obovate or rhomboid, base cuneate, acute or obtuse, apex acute or acuminate, margin serrate, or subentire, glabrous, scabrid on both sides; 3-ribbed from base, lateral nerves 4-10 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers unisexual, greenish-yellow; male in axillary heads, peduncle to 10 mm, sparsely puberulous to glabrous with 1-2 small bracts at the base, occasionally on the stalk, and a few small bracts at the apex; tepals 4, free, lanceolate, 2.5 mm, puberulous without, subacute; stamens 4; filaments 2.5 mm; anthers 1 mm; female flowers axillary, solitary or 2-5 in a cluster; peduncle to 10 mm, puberulous bracts and bracteoles 2.5 mm, ovate, puberulous; tepals 4, ovate, concave, 4 mm, puberulous, subacute; ovary 3 mm, ovoid; style 1 mm long, then lengthening to 2-3 mm; stigmatic arms 3-4 mm long, lengthening to 6-12 mm long, glabrous. Fruit a drupe, 6-8 mm across, globose, obscurely 2-humped, yellow to orange, tepals persistent; seed one, 4-5 mm across, globose, greyish-white. |
| Plant Location in Melghat | : | |
| Medicinal Use / Activity | : | A decoction of the stem bark is used in the treatment of dysentery, Diarrhea and fevers. The bark is chewed as an anti-dote in snake poisoning. Water in which the bark of this tree has been boiled is used for disinfecting wounds. The powdered root bark is used to treat toothache and to cure peritonitis. The leaves are depurative and laxative. They are given, with a little added salt, to mothers who have just given birth. A decoction of the branchlets is drunk to relieve a swollen abdomen. The seed is considered tonic and carminative, as well as an appetizer. A decoction of the roots is used to treat diphtheria. The latex from the plant, rubbed on the temples, is considered effective in treating neuralgia. |
| Plant's Phytochemicals | : | COMPOUNDS: Amyrin acetate; Betulin; Cardenolide B-3; Dichotomin; Lupeol acetate; Strebloside; ACTIVE COMPOUNDS (2): Lupeol; Betulin; |
| 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 : ~ Das, DC.; Sinha, NK.; Chattopadhyay JC.; Das M. and Samanta P.; "The use of medicinal plants for the treatment of Gonorrhea and Syphilis in south west Bengal of India"; International Journal of Phytomedicine (2013); 5: 14-17 PMID : |
| Kingdom | : Plantae - Plants |
|---|---|
| Phylum | : Tracheophyta |
| Subkingdom | : Tracheobionta - Vascular plants |
| Superdivision | : Spermatophyta - Seed plants |
| Division | : Magnoliophyta - Flowering plants |
| Class | : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons |
| Subclass | : Rosids |
| Order | : Rosales |
| Family | : Moraceae |
| Genus | : Streblus |
| Species | : Streblus asper Lour. |