MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT044 : Albizia odoratissima (L. f.) Benth. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 183 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Fabaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Chichwa, Chinchona, White siris, Tall albizia, Safed siris, Black Siris, Ceylon rosewood, fragrant albizia, tea shade tree • Assamese: koroi • Bengali: kakur siris • Garo: khelbi • Gujarati: kalo shirish • Hindi: kala siris • Kannada: kaadu baage • Khasi: dieng krait • Konkani: kali siras • Malayalam: karuvaka, kunnivaka, nellivaka, pulivaka • Manipuri: uil • Marathi: chinchava • Mizo: kangtekpa • Nepali: kalo shirish • Oriya: tiniya • Sanskrit: shirisha • Tamil: cilai, karu-vakai • Telugu: cinduga | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Acacia lomatocarpa DC. Acacia odoratissima (L.f.)Willd. Albizia kalkora Auct. non Prain. Albizia micantha Bovin. Albizia micrantha B.Boivin. Albizia odoratissima var. mollis Baker. Mimosa odoratissima L.f. |
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| Description : | Deciduous trees; to 30 m high; bark 10-15 mm thick, surface greyish-brown to dark brown, rough, irregularly cracked; blaze reddish-pink; branchlets blackish to brown, terete, 2-6 mm thick, initially tawny pubescent, finally glabrous. Leaves bipinnate, alternate, stipulate; stipule free, lateral, caducous; rachis 20-30 cm long, stout, grooved above, spulvinate, brown pubescent, with a gland at the base, pinnae 2-8 pairs, opposite, even pinnate, 5-13 cm long, slender, puberulent, glands between the junctions of 1-2 distal pairs of pinnae; leaflets 14-40, opposite, even pinnate, estipellate, sessile; lamina 1.8-2.5 x 0.5-1.2 cm, oblong, base oblique, apex obtuse and apiculate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; midrib subcentral to submarginal, lateral nerves 3-6 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, white, in globose heads forming terminal panicles; peduncle, slender, puberulous; calyx tube cupular, 1-1.5 x 1-1.3 mm, teeth minute, deltoid, pubescent; corolla broadly funnel shaped, lobes 5, ovate-lanceolate, pubescent; stamems many, 1.2-2 cm long, monadelphous at base, tube as long as or shorter than the corolla tube; ovary stipitate, glabrous or pilose, style filiform, stigma terminal. Fruit a pod 15-20 x 2.5-3.7 cm, flat, strap-shaped, with parallel margin or often some portion constricted, rounded to rostrate at apex, glabrous, often glossy, reddish-brown to dark brown, finely reticulately veined; seeds 6-12, oblong, orbicular, compressed. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The bark is applied externally in leprosy and in inverate ulcers. The leaves boiled in ghi are used by Santals as a remedy for coughs. Asthma; | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | machaerinic acid odoratissimin |
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| Reference : | ~ Banothu V, Neelagiri C, Adepally U, Lingam J and Bommareddy K; "Phytochemical screening and evaluation of in vitro antioxidant and antimicrobial activities of the indigenous medicinal plant Albizia odoratissima "; Pharm Biol (2017); 55(1): 1155-1161 PMID : 28219296 ~ Chen S; "Natural products triggering biological targets - a review of the anti-inflammatory phytochemicals targeting the arachidonic acid pathway in allergy asthma and rheumatoid arthritis."; Curr Drug Targets (2011); 12(3): 288-301 PMID : 20955151 ~ Park HS, Kim SR, Kim JO and Lee YC; "The roles of phytochemicals in bronchial asthma"; Molecules (2010); 15(10): 6810-34 PMID : 20924320 ~ Balaji Kasirajan, Rajadurai Maruthamuthu, Vidhya Gopalakrishnan, Krithika Arumugam, Hudson Asirvatham, Vidya Murali, Ramya Mohandass and Anusha Bhaskar; "A database for medicinal plants used in treatment of asthma"; Bioinformation (2007); 2(3): 105-106 PMID : ~ 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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