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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MH278 : Ensete superbum (Roxb.) Cheesman

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 497  
Class : Liliopsida - Monocotyledons
Order : Zingiberales
Family : Musaceae - Banana family
Genus : Ensete Horan. - ensete
Species : Ensete superbum
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Herbs  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Musaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Jangli Kela, Rock Banana, Wild plantain, jungli kela, kaadu baale, raan kyaanle, kall vazha, chaveni, raankel, bahuja, kal-valai, kattu-valai, adavi arati
 
Synonym : Musa superba Roxb.
Description : Erect shrubs with unbranched globose leafsheaths formed into a pseudostem of 50-100 cm diam. Leaves spirally arranged, 3 x 0.8 m, oblong, entire with channelled midrib; lateral nerves many, parallel from midrib. Spadix 50-100 cm long, with 3-5 spathes at base; bracts several, to 20 x 14 cm, ovate, obtuse, brown. Flowers many on each bracts; unisexual, female flowers towards the base and male flowers above; sepals and 2 petals united into a sheath, 3.5 cm long, 5-lobed; third petals forms into a membranous sheath; stamens 5, perfect, anthers 2.5 cm long, linear-oblong, filaments free; ovary 3-celled, inferior; ovules several in each cell; style simple, stigma globose. Fruit oblong; seeds few, subglobose, black.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : anti-diabetic, diabetes, kidney stone, leucorrhea, measles, stomach ache
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : 4-(4-hydroxy-3-methyl-hex-5-enyl)-chroman-2, 7-diol
Reference : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID :

~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID :

~ Patil, HM and Bhaskar, VV; "Medicinal uses of plnats by tribal medicine men of Nandurbar district in Maharashtra"; Natural Product Radiance (2006); 5(2): 125-130 PMID :