Pentapetes phoenicea L.
Family: Malvaceae
Synonyms: Blattaria phoenicea Kuntze, Brotera phoenicea (L.) Cav., Cavanilla phoenicea J.F.Gmel., Dombeya phoenicea Cav., Eriorhaphe phoenicea (L.) Bamps, Eriorhaphe punicea Miq.
English: flor impia
Chinese: 午时花 , 夜落金钱,
Hindi: बनधुका bandhuka, बनधुलि bandhuli, दोपाहािरया dopahariya, tambridupari तमिरदुपारी,
Japan: goji-ka
Philippines: a las doce, flores de las doce
Sanskrit: Bandhujiva, Arkavallabha
Sinhala: Bandu-vada
Tamil: Nagappu
Description: Annual herbs, 0.5-1 m tall, sparsely stellate hairy. Petiole 1-2.5 cm; leaf blade linear-lanceolate, 5-10 × 1-2 cm, base broadly cuneate, rounded or truncate, margin crenate, apex acuminate. Flowers opening at noon, closing at dawn. Calyx lobes lanceolate, ca. 1 cm, abaxially stellate velutinous and hispid. Petals red, broadly ovate, ca. 12 mm. Staminodes tongue-shaped, 12-13 × ca. 1 mm. Ovary ovoid, villous; ovules 8-12 per cell; style filiform, glabrous, ca. 1 cm. Capsule nearly globose, ca. 1.2 cm in diam., densely stellate hairy and hispid, shorter than persistent calyx. Fl. summer-autumn.
Roots antibilious, for flatulence, stomachache. Flower paste given to cure abnormally heavy periodic flow. Mucilaginous capsules for diseases of bowels, fruit decoction as an emollient. [CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants]
Mucilaginous, used for the diseases of the bowels; a decoction is used as emollient. Root—astringent, antibilious, antiphlegmonous, febrifuge. [Indian Medicinal Plants An Illustrated Dictionary]
This herb is used as an emollient. The fruit is mucilaginous. The root is used medicinally as it is considered astringent, anti-bilious and anti-phlegmonous. In Celebes, the leaves are used as a substitute for tea. [Medicinal Plants (Indigenous and Exotic) Used in Ceylon]
Roots antibilious, for flatulence, stomachache. Flower paste given to cure abnormally heavy periodic flow. Mucilaginous capsules for diseases of bowels, fruit decoction as an emollient. [CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants]
Mucilaginous, used for the diseases of the bowels; a decoction is used as emollient. Root—astringent, antibilious, antiphlegmonous, febrifuge. [Indian Medicinal Plants An Illustrated Dictionary]
This herb is used as an emollient. The fruit is mucilaginous. The root is used medicinally as it is considered astringent, anti-bilious and anti-phlegmonous. In Celebes, the leaves are used as a substitute for tea. [Medicinal Plants (Indigenous and Exotic) Used in Ceylon]
8 Published articles of Pentapetes phoenicea
