Sterculia villosa Roxb.Family: Malvaceae
Synonyms: Sterculia armata Mast., Sterculia lantsangensis Hu, Sterculia ornata Wall. ex Kurz
- Common name: Hairy Sterculia, Elephant rope tree
- Assamese: Udal
- Bengali: Udal উদাল
- Chinese: 榔皮树
- Hindi: Katira, God-gudala, Udal
- Kannada: Bilidale, savaya, anenar
- Khasi: Dieng star
- Malayalam: വക്ക vakka, cavali, chavuthi, shavoodee
- Manipuri: hei-rit
- Marathi: सरडोळ Sardol, kardul, gulkhandar, saykhand
- Mizo: khaupui
- Nepali: ओदाने odane
- Oriya: khaupui, kodali
- Tamil: ஓடல் odal, kottaithanuku, muruthan, vakkainar
- Telugu: kummaripoliki, gugai
Gum laxative. Decoction of bark given for constipation, a paste with ginger applied on hydrocele; paste rubbed over the body to check fever; bark juice with Pongamia pinnata oil used on ulcers. Root tonic, root made into a paste with table sugar and given to children in blood dysentery. Seeds paste with ginger applied on painful swelling of scrotum. Veterinary medicine, gum employed. [CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants]
Description: Deciduous trees, to 10 m high, bark pale-brown, smooth with small corky warts; blaze red; branches horizontal and whorled. Leaves simple, palmately 5-7 lobed, alternate, crowded at the end of branchlets; stipules free, lateral, cauducous; petioles 7-25 cm long, stout, swollen at base, pubescent; lamina 6.5-45 x 9-45 cm, lobes oblong-ovate or ovate, base cordate, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate, margin entire, glabrous above and downy beneath, coriaceous; 5-7-ribbed from the base, palmate, prominent, lateral nerves 4-8, parallel, prominent, intercostae subscalariform-reticulate, prominent. Flowers polygamous, cream-coloured, 10-12 mm across, in long drooping panicles; calyx campanulate, pink, downy outside, glabrous within, divided to the middle, lobes 5, oblong-lanceolate, acute; petals absent; male flowers: staminal column recurved; anthers 10, along the rim of staminal column, column hairy at apex; female flowers; carpels 5, free, strigose with stellate hairs; gynophore stout, cylindric; style stout, hairy, deflexed; staminodes on a ring beneath the ovary. Fruit an aggregate of 2-7 follicles, each 3.5-7.5 cm long, brown, tomentose, seeds many, black, smooth.
Description: Deciduous trees, to 10 m high, bark pale-brown, smooth with small corky warts; blaze red; branches horizontal and whorled. Leaves simple, palmately 5-7 lobed, alternate, crowded at the end of branchlets; stipules free, lateral, cauducous; petioles 7-25 cm long, stout, swollen at base, pubescent; lamina 6.5-45 x 9-45 cm, lobes oblong-ovate or ovate, base cordate, apex acuminate or caudate-acuminate, margin entire, glabrous above and downy beneath, coriaceous; 5-7-ribbed from the base, palmate, prominent, lateral nerves 4-8, parallel, prominent, intercostae subscalariform-reticulate, prominent. Flowers polygamous, cream-coloured, 10-12 mm across, in long drooping panicles; calyx campanulate, pink, downy outside, glabrous within, divided to the middle, lobes 5, oblong-lanceolate, acute; petals absent; male flowers: staminal column recurved; anthers 10, along the rim of staminal column, column hairy at apex; female flowers; carpels 5, free, strigose with stellate hairs; gynophore stout, cylindric; style stout, hairy, deflexed; staminodes on a ring beneath the ovary. Fruit an aggregate of 2-7 follicles, each 3.5-7.5 cm long, brown, tomentose, seeds many, black, smooth.
1. Phytochemical screening and antimicrobial activities of a medicinal plant Sterculia villosa Lakshmi, C.S. and T. Pullaiah, International Journal of Plant, Animal and Environmental Sciences, 2015. 5(2): p. 51-55.
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3. Pharmacological and phytochemical screenings of ethanol extract of Sterculia villosa Roxb Tania, K.N., et al., Journal of Biomedical and Pharmaceutical Research, 2013. 2(1): p. 9-14.
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5. Sterculia Villosa Roxb - A potential source of wood-fibre for pulp and papermaking Ghosh, S.R. and P.P. Baruah, Bioresource Technology, 1997. 62(1-2): p. 43-46.
6. Chemical pulp and paper from Sterculia villosa Roxb Barua, P.P. and L.C. Rabha, Indian Forester, 1992. 118(3): p. 213-217.
7. FLAVONOIDS OF FIRMIANA-SIMPLEX AND STERCULIA-VILLOSA Seetharaman, T.R., Fitoterapia, 1990. 61(4): p. 373-374.
8. NEW RECORD OF ALTERNARIA-ALTERNATA (FR) KEISSLER ON STERCULIA-VILLOSA ROXB Chakravarty, P., Current Science, 1981. 50(16): p. 740-740.
9. Experimental tapping of Sterculia villosa Roxb. for gum karaya Verma, V.P.S. and G.N. Kharakwal, Indian Forester, 1977. 103(4): p. 269-272.
10. Agent for improving fairness and for preventing pigmentation, a.s.a.f., contains Sterculia villosa, Sterculia nobilis and Litsea japonica Yagi, E., et al. Shiseido Co Ltd.
11. Hyaluronidase inhibitor used in topical preparation for preventing aging, c.S.v., Pterocarpus species, Aquilaria agallocha, Rhus javanica, Pyracantha crenulata, Camellia kissi and/or their extracts Umishio, K., E. Yagi, and T. Seki. Shiseido Co Ltd.
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