''Maniltoa grandiflora'' is a species of plant in the family
.
Common names includes handkerchief tree and pokok sapu tangan.
This plant has a synonym ''Maniltoa brawneodes''. It can grow from 5 m to 15 m.
The stem is straight, round, brown and
sympodial
Sympodial growth is a bifurcating branching pattern where one branch develops more strongly than the other, resulting in the stronger branches forming the primary shoot and the weaker branches appearing laterally. A sympodium, also referred to a ...
. Its leaf is green,
pinnate
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, elongate with smooth margin, and pointed at both ends,
with dimension of 7–14 cm long, 3–8 cm wide with 1–1,5 cm long
petiole.
Its root develops from the
radicle
In botany, the radicle is the first part of a seedling (a growing plant embryo) to emerge from the seed during the process of germination. The radicle is the embryonic root of the plant, and grows downward in the soil (the shoot emerges from the ...
and is brownish white.
The leaves, fruits, and bark of this plant contains
saponin
Saponins (Latin "sapon", soap + "-in", one of), also selectively referred to as triterpene glycosides, are bitter-tasting usually toxic plant-derived organic chemicals that have a foamy quality when agitated in water. They are widely distributed ...
,
flavonoid
Flavonoids (or bioflavonoids; from the Latin word ''flavus'', meaning yellow, their color in nature) are a class of polyphenolic secondary metabolites found in plants, and thus commonly consumed in the diets of humans.
Chemically, flavonoids ...
, dan
polyphenol
Polyphenols () are a large family of naturally occurring organic compounds characterized by multiples of phenol units. They are abundant in plants and structurally diverse. Polyphenols include flavonoids, tannic acid, and ellagitannin, some of ...
.
References
grandiflora
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