MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MC002 : Ventilago denticulata Willd. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 80 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Stream and River | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Climbers | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Rahamnaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Kharbel, Chiwati, Raktapiti | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Ventilago calyculata Tul. Ventilago calyculata Tulasne Ventilago calyculata var. trichoclada Y.L. Chen & P.K. Chou. Ventilago macrantha Tulasne. Ventilago maderaspatana Roxb. Ventilago madraspatana var. calyculata King. Ventilago silhetiana M. Laws. Ventilago smithiana Tul. Ventilago sulphurea Tul. |
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| Description : | Large, woody, climbing shrubs; branchlets green, pubescent; bark dark grey, smooth when young. Leaves 4-16 x 2.3-7.5 cm, obtuse or subacute at apex, oblique at base, crenate-serrate, rarely entire, pubescent, subcoriaceous; nerves 5-8 pairs, arcuate, camptodromous near the margin; petioles 3-14 mm in length, pubescent, channelled. Pariicles axillary or terminal, pubescent. Flowers pungent; pedicels 2-5 mm long. Calyx lobes deltoid, 2.8 mm long, hairy within. Petals spathulate, 1.5 mm long, truncate, obcordate or emarginate at apex. Stamens 1.5 mm long; connective prolonged. Disc 5-lobed, rarely 10-lobed,having depression or furrows. Ovary bicarpellary, hairy; stigmatic arms divergent. Samaras with median line single or often double from middle, 3.5-6 x 0.8-2 cm; fruit wing acute or obtuse or bifid or not at the apex. Seeds ovate or subglobose, 1.6.3 x 3-6 mm, black; seed chamber 6-10 mm in diam., pubescent outside. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Stem bark—powdered and mixed with sesame oil, externally applied to skin diseases and sprains. Root bark—used for atonic dyspepsia, mild fever and debility. Sap—used for the treatment of deafness. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | friedelin anthraquinones Ventinones A Ventinones B emodin ventiloquinones Lupeol Beta-sitosterol |
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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 : ~ 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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