Clerodendrum phlomidis

• Botanical Name : Clerodendrum phlomidis L. f.

• The name Clerodendrum is from the Greek kleros, chance, and dendron, a tree, and alludes to a native legend that the plants possessed medicinal properties, which were a possible cure for certain ailments.

• Synonyms : Clerodendrum multiflorum (Burm. F.) Kuntze; Volkameria multiflora Burm. f.
• Common Name : Arni
• Plant Family : Verbenaceae
• Plant Form : Shrub
• Occurrence (Sectors) : 1, 2, 10, 15, 26, 30
• Occurrence (Special Areas) : Gujarat Forestry Research Foundation, Indroda Park, Ayurvedic Udyan, Van Chetana Kendra, Basan, Aranya Van

About Clerodendrum phlomidis Plant :

• Habit : A large shrub.
• Leaves : Leaves opposite, deltoid ovate, obtuse or acute, crenate, dentate, hairy below, wavy.
• Inflorescence : Axillary cymes.
• Flower :
  • Flowers in small, dichotomous axillary cymes forming a rounded terminal panicle, fragrant, bracts small, leafy lanceolate.
  • Calyx 5-lobed, not enlarged in fruit, lobes ovate veined.
  • Corolla white or pinkish, tube long, lobes 5, unequal, elliptic, obtuse, veined.
  • Stamens 4, didynamous, much exserted.
  • Ovary glabrous, style slender, stigma bilobed.
• Fruit : Drupe obovoid, 4-lobed with one pyrene in each lobe.
• Flowering and Fruiting Time : August-February
• Significance :
  • Commonly planted in the gardens for making hedges.
  • The roots are aromatic and astringent.
  • They are used in gonorrhea.