MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT046 : Anogeissus latifolia (Roxb. ex DC.) Wall. ex Beddome |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 188 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Chipi, Dolar, Jamli etc | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Common | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Combretaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Dhawda, Dhawra, G-Alma, Axle Wood Tree • Hindi: Dhau, Dhoy, Dhaura • Marathi: dhaora, dhamora, dhawda • Tamil: namai, vel-naga-maram, nakam, vakkali, • Malayalam: malakanniram, vellanava, mazhkanjiram • Telugu: shirimanu, sirimanu, vellama, yelama • Kannada: bejjalu, dindala, dindhlu, dindiga • Bengali: dhaoya • Oriya: dhavada • Urdu: Gul-e-dhawa • Sanskrit: Baka, Dhava, dhavah, dhavala, dhurandhara, dridhataru | |||||||||||||
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| Description : | Deciduous trees, to 18 m high, bark 10-12 mm thick, surface grey or yellowish-grey, smooth, subverrucose, lenticellate; blaze pinkish-brown; branchlets brown to reddish-brown, drooping, terete, pubescent. Leaves simple, opposite to alternate, estipulate; petiole 5-15 mm, slender, grooved above, glabrous; lamina 2.5-18 x 1.7-9 cm, elliptic, elliptic-oblong, suborbicular, or oblong-obovate, base obtuse, round, cuneate or acute, apex obtuse, emarginate or mucronate, margin entire, glabrous, subcoriaceous; lateral nerves 4-11 paired, pinnate, prominent beneath, arched towards the margin, intercostae scalariform, prominent. Flowers bisexual, 5-6 mm across, pale green or yellow, in axillary aggregated globose heads; peduncle puberulous; pedicel reduced or absent; calyx tube 2 winged, 3-5.5 mm long, produced above the ovary, villous inside, teeth 5, ovate-triangular, to 1 mm long; stamens 10, in 2 series, exserted, 1.5-3 mm long; anthers small; ovary inferior, 1-celled, densely tomentose; ovules 2, pendulous; style 2-3 mm long, thickened at base, villous; stigma simple. Fruit a drupe, 6-8 mm across, greenish-yellow, compressed, puberulous, circular; wings 2, margin entire or slightly undulate, beaked; seed one, obovate. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Gum as tonic; The plant is used in treating snake bites and scorpion stings. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Gallotannin, corilagin, chebulic, ellagic acid gallic acid qunic acid shikimic acid m-trigallic acid Beta-sitosterol (+)-leucocyanidin flavellagic acid |
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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 : ~ Rajendra Prasad Bharti, Abhilasha shrivastava, Jagjeevan Ram Choudhary, Asha Tiwari and N. K. Soni; "Ethno Medicinal Plants used by Tribal Communities in Vindhya region of Rewa and Sidhi District of Madhya Pradesh, India"; IOSR Journal of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences (2013); 8(6): 23-28 PMID : |
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