Family: Euphorbiaceae
Synonyms:Macaranga flexuosa Wight, Macaranga roxburghii Wall, Macaranga roxburghii Wight, Macaranga tomentosa Wight, Macaranga wightiana Baill., Mappa peltata (Roxb.) Wight, Osyris peltata Roxb., Tanarius ftexuosus (Wight) Kuntze, Tanarius peltatus (Roxb.) Kuntze, Tanarius roxburghii Kuntze, Tanarius tomentosus (Wight) Kuntze
Common name: Chandada
Hindi: Chand Kal
Kannada: Vattathamarai, ಚಮ್ದಕಲ Chanda kala, ಉಪ್ಪ್ಲಿಗೆ Upplige, ಬಟ್ಲ ಚಮ್ದ್ರಿಕೆ Batla Chamdrike
Konkani: Kondatamara
Malayalam: തൊടുകണ്ണി Thodukanni, ഉപ്പില Uppila, , Uppothy, വട്ടക്കണ്ണി Vattakkanni
Marati: चांदवा Chandava, चांदा Chanda
Oriya: Piania
Tamil: வட்டிக்கண்ணி Vatti-k-kanni, Vattathamarei, Vattakanni
Telugu: బొద్ది Boddi
Description: Dioecious trees, to 15 m high; bark surface pale, greyish-brown mottled with white, smooth, lenticellate; brittle; blaze deep pink-red; exudation red, gummy; branchlets thick, terete, glaucous. Leaves simple, alternate, stipulate; stipules large, lateral, ovate-acuminate, reflexed, cauducous; petiole 12-35 mm long, stout, glabrous; lamina 11-25 x 9-20 cm, ovate-orbicular, deltoid-ovate, ovate or orbicular, base peltate, apex acute or acuminate, margin entire, glabrous or glabrescent, pubescent with reddish glands beneath, coriaceous; 8-10 ribs from base, palmate, prominent beneath; lateral nerves 7-8 pairs, parallel, regular, prominent, intercostae scalariform, much prominent; margin glandular. Flowers unisexual, greenish-yellow; male flowers: in axillary, much branched, dense, tomentose, panicles, concealed in large bracts; bracteoles concave; tepals 3, minute, obovate, cuneate; stamens 2-8, free, shortly connate below, exserted; female flowers: in panicles simpler than in males, branches racemes with larger bracts; tepals 4, basally connate at base; ovary superior, 2-6-celled, densely glandular, ovule one in each cell; style lateral; stigma sessile, often embracing one side of the ovary, thickly papillose. Frit a capsule, 5-6 mm across, globose, hairy, glandular, black; seed one, black.
In Sidha system of medicine - Leaves as a postpartum remedy. Leaves and bark decoction as a wash for sores. Bark to remove kidney stones; fresh stem bark extract as a lotion for cuts by iron tools. Young fruits crushed with coconut oil and the paste applied for setting up of the bones. Powdered gum made into a paste and applied for venereal sores and postnatal complaints. [CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants Common Names, Scientific Names, Eponyms, Synonyms, and Etymology]
10 Published articles of Macaranga peltata
1. Natural colorant from the bark of Macaranga peltata: kinetic and adsorption studies on silk
Vinod, Konaghatta Narayanachar; Puttaswamy; Gowda, Kurikempanadoddi Ningegowda Ninge; et al.
COLORATION TECHNOLOGY Volume: 126 Issue: 1 Pages: 48-53 Published: 2010
2. Screening of Plant Macaranga peltata for its Antioxidant, antimicrobial and cytotoxicity activity
Verma, Meenakshi; Raj, P. Vasanth; Chandrasekhar, H. Raghu; et al.
Book Group Author(s): IEEE
Conference: International Conference on Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Engineering Location: Singapore, SINGAPORE Date: DEC 02-04, 2009
Sponsor(s): BioMed Central; Simpleware; EMB; IEEE
2009 INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON BIOMEDICAL AND PHARMACEUTICAL ENGINEERING Pages: 142-144 Published: 2009
3. Screening of plant Macaranga peltata for its antioxidant, antimicrobial and cytotoxicity activity
Verma, M.; Raj, P.V.; Chandrasekhar, H.R.; et al.
Conference: 2009 International Conference on Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Engineering (ICBPE 2009) Location: Singapore, Singapore Date: 2-4 Dec. 2009
2009 International Conference on Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Engineering (ICBPE 2009) Pages: 3 pp. Published: 2009
4. Polyphenols from the leaves of Macaranga peltata
Asharani, T.; Seetharaman, T. R.
Fitoterapia Volume: 65 Issue: 2 Pages: 184 Published: 1994
5. STRUCTURE AND DEVELOPMENT OF EXTRAFLORAL NECTARIES AND TRICHOMES IN MACARANGA-PELTATA (ROXB.) MUELL, ARG. (EUPHORBIACEAE)
JOSE, T; INAMDAR, JA
ACTA SOCIETATIS BOTANICORUM POLONIAE Volume: 57 Issue: 2 Pages: 229-233 Published: 1988
6. ISOLATION OF 6,3',4'-TRIMETHOXYFLAVANONE FROM THE BARK OF MACARANGA-PELTATA MUELL
ANJANEYULU, ASR; REDDY, DS
INDIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY SECTION B-ORGANIC CHEMISTRY INCLUDING MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY Volume: 20 Issue: 3 Pages: 251-251 Published: 1981
7. CYCLOPELTENYL ACETATE - A NOVEL TETRACYCLIC TRITERPENE FROM HEARTWOOD OF MACARANGA-PELTATA MUELL
ANJANEYULU, ASR; REDDY, DSK
INDIAN JOURNAL OF CHEMISTRY SECTION B-ORGANIC CHEMISTRY INCLUDING MEDICINAL CHEMISTRY Volume: 20 Issue: 12 Pages: 1033-1036 Published: 1981
8. ISOLATION OF 2'-HYDROXY 3', 4', 5', 6', 3, 4-HEXAMETHOXY CHALCONE FROM THE BARK OF MACARANGA-PELTATA MUELL
ANJANEYULU, ASR; REDDY, DS
CURRENT SCIENCE Volume: 49 Issue: 20 Pages: 787-787 Published: 1980
9. ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BERGENIN DERIVATIVES FROM MACARANGA-PELTATA
ATCHUTARAMAIAH, P; RAMACHANDRAROW, L; SIVAKUMARREDDY, D; et al.
JOURNAL OF THE CHEMICAL SOCIETY-PERKIN TRANSACTIONS 1 Issue: 9 Pages: 2313-2316 Published: 1979
10. ISOLATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF BERGENIN DERIVATIVES FROM MACARANGA-PELTATA
RAMAIAH P A; ROW L R; REDDY D S; et al.
Journal of the Chemical Society Perkin Transactions I Issue: 9 Pages: 2313-2316 Published: 1979
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