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'''Vitkhadirah''', is a tall tree with digitate leaves and large woody pods. The seeds are edible and also used to make oil.
==Uses==
{{Uses|Rheumatism}}, {{Uses|Gonorrhoea}}
==Parts Used==
==Chemical Composition==
==Common names==
{{Common names|kn=baethaalada mara, basavana goota|ml=pinari, pottakavalam|sa=putidaru, vitkhadirah
|ta=atikanari, attirappidukkan, cutiram, cutiramaram|te=gurapa, gurapubadam, gurrapubaadamu|hi= jangli-badam|en=Java Olive}}
<ref name="Common names"/>
==Properties==
Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.
===Dravya===
===Rasa===
===Guna===
===Veerya===
===Vipaka===
===Karma===
===Prabhava===
==Habit==
{{Habit|Tree}}
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Palmately compound|alternate| clustered at the end of branchlets; stipules free, lateral, deciduous; rachis 8-24 cm long, slender, glabrous, swollen at base; leaflets 3-9; petiolule to 3 mm; lamina 5.5-14 x 2-5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic oblanceolate, base cuneate, apex acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 10-24, parallel, close, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, slender, prominent.}}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Unisexual or Polygamous|axillary spiciform racemes|Orange red|10|in axillary or terminal racemes, foetid smell; calyx dull orange red, deeply 5-partite, glabrous out side, woolly inside; petals absent; male flowers: staminal column curved, hairy at base, bearing 10-15 anthers at its tip; female flowers: ovary 5, free, superior, downy, each with 20 ovules, gynophore stout; styles deflexed, hairy; staminodes subsessile in a ring beneath the carpels.}}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|Aggregate of follicles|| of 1-5, scarlet, boat shaped, 5-lobed, woody, glabrous; seeds black, numerous, ellipsoid, smooth, with a small yellow aril.|}}
===Other features===
==List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used==
==Where to get the saplings==
==Mode of Propagation==
{{Propagation|Seeds}}
==How to plant/cultivate==
===Season to grow===
===Soil type===
===Propagation===
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
{{Commonly seen|Tropical area}}.
==Photo Gallery==
<gallery class="left" caption="" widths="140px" heights="140px">
File:Punava (Marathi- पुनव) (2334250747).jpg
File:காட்டுப் பாதா மரம்1.jpg
File:Starr 080305-3316 Sterculia foetida.jpg
File:Starr 080305-3319 Sterculia foetida.jpg
File:Sterculia foetida Blanco1.134.jpg
</gallery>
==References==
<references>
<ref name="Leaf">[http://FLOWERING PLANTS OF KERALA VER.2, N. Sasidharan "BOTANIC DESCRIPTION"]</ref>
<ref name="Common names">[http://envis.frlht.org/bot_search "Vernacular names"]</ref>
</references>
==External Links==
* http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Sterculia+foetida
* http://www.worldagroforestry.org/treedb/AFTPDFS/Sterculia_foetida.PDF
*
[[Category:Herbs]]
[[Category:Plants of western ghats]][[Category:Tree]]
'''Vitkhadirah''', is a tall tree with digitate leaves and large woody pods. The seeds are edible and also used to make oil.
==Uses==
{{Uses|Rheumatism}}, {{Uses|Gonorrhoea}}
==Parts Used==
==Chemical Composition==
==Common names==
{{Common names|kn=baethaalada mara, basavana goota|ml=pinari, pottakavalam|sa=putidaru, vitkhadirah
|ta=atikanari, attirappidukkan, cutiram, cutiramaram|te=gurapa, gurapubadam, gurrapubaadamu|hi= jangli-badam|en=Java Olive}}
<ref name="Common names"/>
==Properties==
Reference: Dravya - Substance, Rasa - Taste, Guna - Qualities, Veerya - Potency, Vipaka - Post-digesion effect, Karma - Pharmacological activity, Prabhava - Therepeutics.
===Dravya===
===Rasa===
===Guna===
===Veerya===
===Vipaka===
===Karma===
===Prabhava===
==Habit==
{{Habit|Tree}}
==Identification==
===Leaf===
{{Leaf|Palmately compound|alternate| clustered at the end of branchlets; stipules free, lateral, deciduous; rachis 8-24 cm long, slender, glabrous, swollen at base; leaflets 3-9; petiolule to 3 mm; lamina 5.5-14 x 2-5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate or elliptic oblanceolate, base cuneate, apex acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 10-24, parallel, close, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, slender, prominent.}}<ref name="Leaf"/>
===Flower===
{{Flower|Unisexual or Polygamous|axillary spiciform racemes|Orange red|10|in axillary or terminal racemes, foetid smell; calyx dull orange red, deeply 5-partite, glabrous out side, woolly inside; petals absent; male flowers: staminal column curved, hairy at base, bearing 10-15 anthers at its tip; female flowers: ovary 5, free, superior, downy, each with 20 ovules, gynophore stout; styles deflexed, hairy; staminodes subsessile in a ring beneath the carpels.}}
===Fruit===
{{Fruit|Aggregate of follicles|| of 1-5, scarlet, boat shaped, 5-lobed, woody, glabrous; seeds black, numerous, ellipsoid, smooth, with a small yellow aril.|}}
===Other features===
==List of Ayurvedic medicine in which the herb is used==
==Where to get the saplings==
==Mode of Propagation==
{{Propagation|Seeds}}
==How to plant/cultivate==
===Season to grow===
===Soil type===
===Propagation===
==Commonly seen growing in areas==
{{Commonly seen|Tropical area}}.
==Photo Gallery==
<gallery class="left" caption="" widths="140px" heights="140px">
File:Punava (Marathi- पुनव) (2334250747).jpg
File:காட்டுப் பாதா மரம்1.jpg
File:Starr 080305-3316 Sterculia foetida.jpg
File:Starr 080305-3319 Sterculia foetida.jpg
File:Sterculia foetida Blanco1.134.jpg
</gallery>
==References==
<references>
<ref name="Leaf">[http://FLOWERING PLANTS OF KERALA VER.2, N. Sasidharan "BOTANIC DESCRIPTION"]</ref>
<ref name="Common names">[http://envis.frlht.org/bot_search "Vernacular names"]</ref>
</references>
==External Links==
* http://tropical.theferns.info/viewtropical.php?id=Sterculia+foetida
* http://www.worldagroforestry.org/treedb/AFTPDFS/Sterculia_foetida.PDF
*
[[Category:Herbs]]
[[Category:Plants of western ghats]][[Category:Tree]]
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