Pterospermum rubiginosum Heyne ex Wt. & Arn.

Pterospermum rubiginosum Heyne ex Wt. & Arn.

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Systematic Classification:

Division	: Angiospermae
Class		: Dicotyledons 
Family		: Malvaceae		
Genus		: Pterospermum
Species 	: rubiginosum

Common Name:

Ellooti, Malamthodali

General Information:

Large trees up to 28 m tall.Bark brown, large flaky or exfoliating; blaze outer bark red and inner cream.Young branchlets slender, terete, tawny pubescent and stellate hairy.Leaves simple, alternate, distichous; stipules lateral, with two linear subulate appendages, densely stellate tomentose, caducous; petiole ca. 0.1 cm long, terete, stellate tomentose; lamina 4.5-10 x 1.5-3 cm, narrow oblong-lanceolate, apex acuminate, base asymmetric often subpeltate, margin entire, chartaceous, tawny pubescent and stellate hairy; midrib flat above; 3-nerved at base; secondary nerves 5-7 pairs, ascending; tertiary nerves reticulo-percurrent.Flowers white, solitary, axillary; pedicels up to 0.5 cm long.Capsule brown, 5-angled, 5 x 1.3 cm, glabrous; seeds winged at one end.

Economic Importance:

  • The barks of P. rubiginosum are used in traditional medicine especially in the treatment of wounds, sprains, bone fracture.