MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT072 : Radermachera xylocarpa (Roxb.) Roxb. ex K.Schum. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 372 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | On Chikhaldara and Vairat | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | UNCOMMON | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Bignoniaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Khadsing, K-Tetu, Padri Tree • Hindi: Paral, Jaimangal • Marathi: Kadashing, Bairsing, Khansing • Tamil: Pathri, Vedanguruni, Vadencharni • Malayalam: Vedangkonnai • Telugu: Naguru, Naga-Dundilam • Kannada: Udi, Ambalahude • Oriya: Khonda-partolli | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Bignonia xylocarpa Roxb. Spathodea xylocarpa (Roxb.) T.Anderson ex Brand. Stereospermum xylocarpum (Roxb.) Benth. & Hook. fil. Tecoma xylocarpa (Roxb.) G.Don. |
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| Description : | Deciduous trees; to 20 m high; bark 2.5 cm, light greyish-brown, rough, corky, flaking off in thin irregular scales; blaze brown and cream. Leaves compound, bipinnate or tripinnate, opposite, estipulate; rachis 24-50 cm long, stout, swollen at base and each nodes; pinnae 7-9, leaflets 3-9 in each pinnae, opposite; petiolule 1.5-5 mm; lamina 3.5-15 x 2-7 cm, elliptic-lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate or ovate; base oblique or acute; apex acute or acuminate; margin entire, membranous, glabrous; lateral nerves 4-7 pairs, glabrous, raised beneath, prominent, slender; intercostae reticulate. Flowers bisexual, white, tinged with yellow, fragrant, in terminal panicled cymes, calyx 1 cm long, campanulate, irregularly 5 lobed; corolla 4.5 cm long, 4 cm across, campanulate, bilabiate, lobes subequal, obtuse, crisped, glabrous; stamens 4, didynamous, included, anthers divaricate, 4 mm; staminodes filiform; ovary oblong, glabrous, superior; ovules many, multiseriate; style slender; stigma spoon shaped. Fruit a capsule, elongate, 30-75 x 1.5-3.7 cm, warty tubercled, woody, bivalved, dissepiments spongy, slightly curved; seeds winged, 1.5 cm long, with membranous wings at both ends. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Skin diseases-oil; antitumor; anti-inflammatory; treatment of rheumatism; It is reported that the paste of seeds and root water is administered orally and also applied on the wounds due to snake and insect bites. Placental cord in fruit against viper venom. It is made into paste and applied over snake bite and taken internally. Seeds also used as antidote for snake poison (Bhogaonkar and Devarkar 2002). | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | lapachol alpha-lapachone dinatin-7-glucuronide O-acetyl Oleanolic acid radermachol |
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ Bhogaonkar PY and Devarkar VD; "Some unique ethnomedicinal plants of Korkus of Melghat Tiger Reserve (Maharashtra) "; Ethnobotany (2002); 14: 16-19 PMID : ~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID : |
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