Macaranga peltata (Roxb.) Müll.Arg.

Taxonomy: Plantae > Tracheophyta > Equisetopsida > Malpighiales > Euphorbiaceae > Macaranga > M. peltata

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 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.

Flowering and fruiting: January- February

Uses: Folk medicine, Siddha

Cultivation: Wild

References

http://www.plantsoftheworldonline.org

https://indiabiodiversity.org