MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT114 : Gardenia resinifera Roth |
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| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | RUBIACEAE | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Brilliant Gardenia, cambi resin tree, white emetic nut • Hindi: dekamali • Marathi: dikamali, dikemali • Tamil: kampali-p-picin, kumpai, kumpili, tikkamalli • Malayalam: kabimaram • Telugu: konda manga • Kannada: bikki gida, dikkaamaalli • Konkani: dikmali • Gujarati: dikamari • Sanskrit: nadihingu | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Gardenia lucida Roxb. Genipa resinifera (Roth) Baill. |
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| Description : | Trees, to 10 m high, bark 0.85 cm, greenish-grey, exfoliating in irregular flakes flakes; blaze creamy yellow; exudation yellow resinous. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules intrapetiolar, connate in to a sheath; petiole 3-7 mm, stout, glabrous; lamina 7-18 x 4-8 cm, elliptic, base obtuse, rounded or attenuate, apex obtuse or obtusely acute, margin entire or wavy, glabrous, shiny above, coriaceous; lateral nerves 12-30 pairs, parallel, prominent beneath; intercostae scalariform, slender; domatia present. Flowers bisexual, white turns to yellow in axillary, solitary or in lax cymes; calyx tubular, lobes 5, lanceolate, puberulous without, acuminate; corolla tube 3 cm long, lobes 5, 3 x 2 cm, obovate, puberulous without; stamens 5; anthers exserted, oblong; ovary 6 mm, terete, 8 x 3 mm, inferior, ovules many; style 3.5 cm thick; stigma club shaped. Fruit a berry, 2 x 1.5 cm with crown of calyx, ellipsoid; seeds rugose. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Dikamali or cumbi gum, which is excreted on the stems and buds of the plant, is antispasmodic, expectorant, carminative and stimulant. It is used in the treatment of cutaneous diseases and to keep off flies and worms. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Gardenin Nevadensin Wogonin |
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| Reference : | ~ Prabha Y. Bhogaonkar and Pankaj A. Dhole; "Checklist of Flora of Melghat"; Chief Conservator of Forest & Field Director, Melghat Tiger Project, Camp, Amravati
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