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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MT109 : Dalbergia sissoo DC.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Dalbergia L. f. - Indian rosewood
Species : Dalbergia sissoo Roxb. ex DC. - Indian rosewood
Plant Location in Melghat : Was planted as avenue  
Plant Category : Tree  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : FABOIDEAE  
 
Plant Common Name : Sisu-goch, Indian rosewood, Shisham (Hindi), Sissu (Manipuri), Sitral (Bengali)
 
Synonym : Amerimnon sissoo (Roxb.)Kuntze
Description : Tree with rough bark and mainly longitudinal furrows, young branch pubescent. Leaf imparipinnate, rachis c. 3.7-7.5 cm long; leaflets 3-5, c. 3.5-6.5 cm long, broadly ovate or suborbicular, acuminate, glabrescent, petiolule c. 5-8 mm long; stipules c. 5 mm long. Inflorescence an axillary panicle, composed of several short spikes with sessile to subsessile flowers. Bract small, pubescent, caducous. Calyx c. 5 mm long, teeth ciliate, unequal, shorter than the tube. Corolla yellowish white. Stamens 9, monadelphous, tube slit on the upper side only, anthers uniform. Ovary pubescent, 2-4-ovulate, style glabrous, stigma capitate. Fruit c. 3.7-10 cm long, c. 7.0-13 mm broad, strap-shaped, glabrous, 1-4-seeded. Seed flattened. Fl. Per.: March-May.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : Powdered wood, leaves and seed oil are used in traditional medicine in India, especially to treat skin diseases. The leaves are reportedly used as a stimulant and to treat gonorrhea and wounds. Ethanolic leaf extracts showed significant anti-inflammatory activity, without side effects on gastric mucosa. Decoction of leaves is useful in gonorrhea. Root is astringent. Wood is alterative, useful in leprosy, boils, eruptions and to allay vomiting.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : tectoridin
biochanin A
Dalbergenone
Dalbergichromene
Dalbergin
dalbergiphenol
Isocaviudin
Isocaviunin
Isodalbergin
linolenic acid
Methyldalbergin
Nordalbergin
Octadecanoate
oleic acid
palmitic acid
Sissotrin
Tectorigenin
Reference : ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati (2018 - 2019); Book 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 :

~ Rashmi Yadav, Sadhana Singh, Brijesh Gupta and KN Dwivedi; "A review on (Dalbergia sissoo Roxb.) with special reference to its role in prameha as per brihtrayi and chikitsa granth"; Journal of Pharmacognosy and Phytochemistry (2018); 7(4): 216-220 PMID :