MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT081 : Holoptelea integrifolia Planch. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 475 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Dodhra Khora | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Ulmaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Chiler, Papra, Indian Elm, entire-leaved elm tree, jungle cork tree, south Indian elm tree • Hindi: chilbil, kanju, papri • Marathi: ainasadada, vavala • Tamil: aya • Malayalam: aaval • Telugu: nali • Bengali: nata karanja • Oriya: dhauranjan • Konkani: vamvlo • Gujarati: charal, charel, kanjo • Sanskrit: chirivilva • Nepali: sano pangro | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Ulmus integrifolia Roxb. |
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| Description : | Large deciduous trees, to 25 m high, bark 6-8 mm thick, whitish-grey, smooth; blaze yellowish-grey, streaked with light brown; branchlets pubescent. Leaves simple, alternate; stipules lateral, scarious; petiole 5-10 mm, stout, pubescent; lamina 6-12.5 x 2.5-6.5 cm, ovate-oblong, ovate or elliptic-ovate, base rounded or subcordate, apex acuminate, margin entire, distantly serrate when young, coriaceous, glabrous above, appressed pubescent punctate below; lateral nerves 6-9 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers polygamous, appear before leaves, 5-8 mm across, greenish-purple, in axillary fascicles; tepals 4 or 5, free, anthers pubescent; female flowers with longer pedicels; ovary superior, compressed, long stipitate, 2-winged, 1-celled, ovule 1; style 2 fid. Fruit a samara, 3 cm across, orbicular, wings nerved, glabrous, seed one. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The bark and leaves are used for treating oedema, diabetes, leprosy and other skin diseases, intestinal disorders, piles and sprue. A poultice of the bark and leaves is applied topically to treat boils, swellings and rheumatic pains. The bark is used externally as a treatment for rheumatism, ringworm, scabies, ulcers and scorpion stings. The mucilaginous bark is boiled then the juice is squeezed out and applied to rheumatic swellings; the exhausted bark is then powdered and applied over the parts covered by the sticky juice. The seed and a paste of the stem bark is used in treating ringworm. anti-bacterial, anti-fungal, analgesic, anti-oxidant, anti-inflammatory, anthelmintic, anti-diabetic, antiDiarrheal, adaptogenic, anti-cancer, wound healing, Hepatoprotective, larvicidal, antiemetic, CNS depressant, and hypolipidemic activities. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Holoptelin-A Holoptelin-B friedlin epifriedlin Beta-amyrin stigmasterol Beta-sitosterol 1,4-napthalenedione betulin betulinic acid hexacosanol octacosanol |
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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 : ~ Shubhangi Pawar and D A Patil; "Observations on folkloric medicinal plants of Jalgaon district, Maharashtra"; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (2004); 3(4): 437-442 PMID : |
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