MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT036 : Bauhinia malabarica Roxb. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 165 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Common | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Fabaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Ambotha K-Chapha, Malabar Bauhinia • Assamese: kotra • Bengali: karmai • Garo: bakbakhol, beolphiu, migong thak • Hindi: amli, Amlosa • Kannada: basavanapaada, Mandara, Kudugulu, Cheppura • Konkani: korat • Malayalam: aarampuli • Marathi: amli, koral • Nepali: tanki • Oriya: gumbati • Sanskrit: amlapatrah, ashmantaka, ashmayukta, yamalapatrah • Tamil: malai-y-atti, puli-y-atti, Vellathi, Mantharai • Telugu: Pedda-ari, Pul-ari,Puli chinta, Pul-dondra | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Bauhinia acida Korth. Bauhinia castrata Hassk. Bauhinia hawkesiana F.M.Bailey. Bauhinia malabarica var. reniformis Baker. Bauhinia platyphylla Miq. Bauhinia rugulosa Miq. Casparea castrata (Hassk.)Hassk. Pauletia acida (Korth.)Hassk. Piliostigma acidum (Korth.)Benth. Piliostigma malabaricum (Roxb.)Benth. Piliostigma malabaricum var. acidum (Korth.)de Wit. |
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| Description : | Deciduous trees, to 15 m high, bark 10-15 mm thick, brown, rough, shallow with vertical and horizontal furrows, fibrous, exfoliating in long strips; blaze red, concentrically striated. Leaves simple, bilobed, alternate; stipules small, free, lateral, cauducous; petiole 25-30 mm long, slender, glabrous, swollen at tip and base; lamina 5-10 x 7-12.5 cm, broader than long, suborbicular, base cordate, apex obtuse, margin entire, glabrous above, slightly glaucous beneath, coriaceous; 9-11 nerves from the base, palmate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, 6-8 mm across, cream coloured, in axillary corymbs; pedicels slender, upto 2.5 cm; calyx tube long, thin, pubescent with 5 short lobes; petals 5, oblong; stamens 10, all fertile, alternate ones short; anthers versatile; ovary half inferior, stipitate; ovules many; style filiform; stigma peltate. Fruit a pod, 25-30 x 1.8-2.5 cm, straight, flattened, beaked, longitudinally striate, glabrous; seeds 20-30, oblong. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Being commonly prescribed to treat cough, gout, glandular swellings and goiter, haemorrhage, leprosy, menorrhagia, scrofula, urinary disorders, wasting diseases, worm infestations and wounds and for liver disorders. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | 6,8-di-C-methylkaempferol 3-methyl ether kaempferol afzelin quercetin isoquercitrin quercitrin hyperoside |
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Omesh Bajpai, Jitendra Pandey and Lal Babu Chaudhary; "Ethnomedicinal Uses of Tree Species by Tharu Tribes in the Himalayan Terai Region of India"; Research Journal of Medicinal Plant (2016); 10(1): 19-41 PMID : |
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