MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT061 : Xeromphis uliginosa (Retz.) Maheshw |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 236 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Better represented in Chourakund, Rangubeli, Khandakheda localities | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Rubiaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Tupkela, Kala Pendhara K-Purput, Ghangru, Divine Jasmine, Tamilnadia • Marathi: Kalaphendra • Tamil: Wagatta, Kalikarai • Malayalam: Pindichakka, Malankara • Telugu: Kuka-elka • Nepali: Pidaar, Piraar | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Tamilnadia uliginosa (Retz.) Tirveng. & Sastre. |
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| Description : | Deciduous trees, to 7 m high, bark reddish-brown; branchlets 4 angled, terminating with one or two pair of sharp thorns. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipule interpetiolar, 3-5 x 5-7 mm, broadly triangular, acuminate; petiole 5-10 mm, stout, glabrous; lamina 5-18 x 2-8 cm, obovate, oblanceolate or obovate-oblong, base cuneate or attenuate, apex obtuse or round, margin entire, glabrous above and pubescent and glaucous beneath; lateral nerves 5-10 pairs, pinnate, prominent beneath; intercostae reticulate, slender; domatia present. Flowers bisexual, white, 5 cm across, solitary, at the end of branchlets, dimorphic with large and sessile, small and stalked; calyx tube 1-1.2 x 0.3-0.4 cm, turbinate, silky pubescent at throat, lobes 5, suborbicular; corolla tube short, lobes 5, large, spreading, orbicular, hairy at mouth, imbricate; stamens 5; anthers linear; ovary 2-celled, inferior, ovules many; style stout; stigma thick, 2 lobed. Fruit a berry, 4-5 x 2.5-3.5 cm, ovoid or ellipsoid, smooth, yellow; seeds smooth, compressed. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Bark: astringent, emetic, abortifacient, analgesic, constipating and anti-septic. Fruits: bitter, acrid, thermogenic, anti-inflammatory, carminative. Root: aphrodisiac, diuretic, haematinic, tonic and cooling. anti-cancer | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | mannitol leucoanthocyanidin oleanolic acid |
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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