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Published In: Species Plantarum. Editio quarta 3(1): 729. 1800. (Sp. Pl.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Flower/Fruit: Fl.Per.: December July.
Type: Type: “Habitat in India”
Distribution: Distribution: Probably a native of North East India; Bangla Desh (Chittagong), Burma and Malayasia; cultivated in Pakistan and N. America.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Planted as a roadside tree or garden ornamental. The indumerrtum from the lower side of leaf is said to be used to prevent bleeding from wounds and as tinder. A good tonic is prepared from the flowers which is also a cure for inflammation, ulcers, tumours, blood troubles and leprosy. The bark and leaves are used in small pox. The flowers kept among cloths impart a pleasant perfume and keep away insects.
Map Location: B-6 Peshawar Dist.: Islamia College, Peshawar, S.M.A. Kazmi 64(KUH); Peshawar, Ramzan s.n. 25.6.1968 (PFI-M); Ibid, Shariq s.n. 15.6.69 (PFI-M); D-7 Lyallpur Dist.: Agriculture College, Lyallpur, A.H.Khan s.n. 28.4.1957 (PFI-B); D-8 Lahore Dist.: Jinnah Gardens, Lahore, up to 30 ft. tall, Flowers yellowish white, cult. tree, Saida Qureshi s.n. 20.4.1966 (KUH); Ibid, March 1967 (KUH); G-4 Karachi Dist.: Beach Luxury Hotel, Karachi, M.Qaiser 5488 (KUH); Zoological Garden, Karachi, Sultanul Abedin 9814 (KUH).

 

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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.
 
 
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