Pterospermum acerifolium (L.) Willd.Family: Sterculiaceae
- Common name: Maple-leaved Bayur tree, Dinnerplate Tree
- Assamese: Moragos
- Bengali: মুচুকুন্দ Muskanda
- Chinese: 翅子树
- Hindi: Kanak Champa कनक चम्पा, Muchkund मचकुंद, परिव्याध Parivyadh, पद्म पुष्प Padma Pushp
- Malayalam: ചെറുകൊന്ന Cerukonna, മലഞുടലി Malanjutali
- Manipuri: Kwakla
- Marathi: कर्णिकार Karnikar
- Oriya: Mushukundo, ମୁଚୁକୁନ୍ଦ
- Sanskrit: कर्णिकार Karnikar, मुचुकुन्द Muchukund
- Tamil: வெண்ணங்கு Vennangu
- Telugu: Matsakanda
- Urdu: Gul-e-Muchkun
Description: A large tree, up to 30 m tall, with grey bark and rusty pubescent young parts. Leaves oblong, broadly obovate to ovate, orbicular or rectangular, 10-40 cm long, 8-35 cm broad, cordate, often peltate, margin wavy to distantly coarse toothed or irregularly lobed; silvery to rusty pubescent beneath, glabrescent and dark green above; petiole 5-15 cm long, densely tomentose at the base; stipules pinnatifid, caducous. Flowers mostly solitary, 10-15 cm long and across, white, fragrant; pedicel c. 2 cm long; bracts laciniate. Sepals linear-lanceolate, united at the base into short tube, 8-12 cm long, c. 1 cm broad, obtuse, rusty pubescent outside, thick, reflexed, deciduous. Petals linear-oblong or obovate, 6-12 cm long, c. 1 cm broad, reflexed, obtuse. Fertile stamens 5-9 cm long, staminodes equalling the petals; anthers 1-1.5 cm long. Carpels 5; ovary oblong, pentagonal, 5-loculed, densely rusty tomentose. Capsule 5-10 cm long, 5-valved, rusty brown-glabrescent. Seeds compressed, obliquely oval, wings brown, membranous.
Flower—anti-inflammatory, styptic (used for bleeding piles, haematuria, ulcers). Charred flowers and bark, mixed with the powder of Mallotus philippinensis, are applied to smallpox eruptions. [Indian Medicinal Plants An Illustrated Dictionary]
Bark useful in intestinal complaints, anemia, headache and pains. Bark and leaves used in smallpox. The indumentum from the lower side of leaf is said to be used to prevent bleeding from wounds; leaf paste applied on headache. Flowers and bark charred and mixed with kamala (Mallotus philippensis) applied on suppurating smallpox. A tonic from the flowers a cure for inflammation, ulcers, tumours, headache, abdominal pain, indigestion, dehydration, blood troubles and leprosy; calyx made into a paste and applied on glandular swellings around neck. The flowers kept among cloths impart a pleasant perfume and keep away insects. Roots juice given as antidote in poisoning; roots applied as a paste on wounds. [CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants]
Bark useful in intestinal complaints, anemia, headache and pains. Bark and leaves used in smallpox. The indumentum from the lower side of leaf is said to be used to prevent bleeding from wounds; leaf paste applied on headache. Flowers and bark charred and mixed with kamala (Mallotus philippensis) applied on suppurating smallpox. A tonic from the flowers a cure for inflammation, ulcers, tumours, headache, abdominal pain, indigestion, dehydration, blood troubles and leprosy; calyx made into a paste and applied on glandular swellings around neck. The flowers kept among cloths impart a pleasant perfume and keep away insects. Roots juice given as antidote in poisoning; roots applied as a paste on wounds. [CRC World Dictionary of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants]
52 Published articles of Pterospermum acerifolium (L.) Willd.
