MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT062 : Madhuca indica J.F. Gmel. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 288 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Scattered throughout, More conspicuous aroun villages | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Sapotaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Moh, Mahuwa, K-Mu, Indian Butter Tree • Hindi: Mahua, Mohwa • Bengali: Maul • Marathi: Kat-illipi • Malayalam: Illupa • telugu: Ippa | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Madhuca longifolia latifolia (Roxb.) A.Chev. Bassia latifolia Roxb. Illipe latifolia (Roxb.) F.Muell. Illipe malabrorum subsp. latifolia (Roxb.) Dubard. Madhuca latifolia (Roxb.) J.F.Macbr. Vidoricum latifolium (Roxb.) Kuntze. |
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| Description : | Trees, to 20 m high, bark grey, 1.3 cm thick, vertically cracked, exfoliating in thin scales; blaze reddish-brown or dark red; exudation milky. Leaves simple, alternate, clustered at the end of branchlets; stipules lateral, lanceolate, cauducous; petiole 20-40 mm long, stout, glabrous; lamina 10-25 × 6-12 cm, elliptic, base round, obtuse or cuneate, apex acute, acuminate or apiculate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral nerves 9-14 pairs, parallel, prominent, intercostae reticulate, faint. Flowers bisexual, creamy, axillary; calyx lobes 4 [ 2 +2], obovate, fulvous tomentose, acute; corolla tube 8 mm long, lobes 6-12, oblong; stamens 16, roughly in 3 series; anthers 3.5 mm, sparsely hairy; connectives apiculate; ovary superior, 3 mm long, 6-celled; style 2.5 cm long, exserted, pubescent below; stigma obtuse. Fruit a berry, ovoid, greenish, fleshy, tawny-tomentose with out; pedicel stout; seeds 2. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The flowers are regarded as cooling, tonic and demulcent. They are used in the treatment of coughs, colds and bronchitis. The bark is used medicinally in the treatment of leprosy. A decoction of the bark is given to diabetic patients. The oil from the seeds is used in the treatment of skin diseases. t is used as Anti diabetic, anti-ulcer, anti-cancer, hepato protective, anti pyretic, anti fertility, analgesic, anti oxidant, swelling, inflammation, piles, emetic, dermatological, laxative, tonic, anti burn, anti earth worm, wound healing headache and many more problems. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Sapogenin madhucic acid madhushazone Madhucosides A Madhucosides B Alpha-amyrin beta-amyrin Arachidic acids linolelic acids oleic acids myrisic acids palmitic acids stearic acids myricetin quercetin Misaponin A Misaponin B Beta-sitosterol tigmasterol Beta-sitosterol-beta-D-glucoside n-hecacosanol sitosterol Ethylcinnamate sesquiterene alcohol alpha-tocopherol |
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| Reference : | ~ Chandra Prakash Kala; "Aboriginal uses and management of ethnobotanical species in deciduous forests of Chhattisgarh state in India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2009); 5(20): 1-9 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); 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 : |
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