MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS048 : Caesalpinia decapetala (Roth) Alston |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 170 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | On Plateaux and in ravines around Chikhaldara | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Fabaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Chillari,K-Khailaia, Mysore Thorn, Cat's claw, Mauritius thorn • Hindi: Ralan, Arlu, Kingan, Alai • Marathi: Chilar • Telugu: Gaddakorinda • Kannada: Gajalige, hotasige, Hunnula, Kurudu gejjuga | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Biancaea scandens Tod. Biancaea sepiaria (Roxb.)Tod. Caesalpinia benguetensis Elmer. Caesalpinia crista Auct. non L. Caesalpinia decapetala var. japonica (Siebold & Zucc.)H.Ohashi. Caesalpinia ferox Hassk. Caesalpinia japonica Siebold & Zucc. Caesalpinia sepiaria Roxb. Caesalpinia sepiaria var. auricoma Trimen. Caesalpinia sepiaria var. japonica (Siebold & Zucc.)Gagnep. Mezoneuron benguetense (Elmer)Elmer. Reichardia decapetala Roth. |
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| Description : | a robust and sprawling shrub or climber 0.5-10 m tall, with numerous straight to hooked thorns on the stems. Bipinnately compound leaves are dark green above, paler beneath, up to 30 cm long, with deciduous stipules 8-20 mm long. The leaf rachis is armed with downwardly hooked prickles. Each leaf consists of 3-15 pairs of pinnae, each pinna having 5-12 pairs of leaflets, elliptic-oblong to ovate, rounded at the apex, 10-22 mm long, 4-11 mm wide. Flowers are pale yellow, 25-30 mm diameter, borne in axillary and terminal racemes 10-40 cm long, petals 10-15 cm long and 8-15 mm wide. Fruits are dehiscent pods 6-11 cm long, 2-3 cm wide, containing 4-9 black ellipsoid, flattened, black seeds 8-12 mm long and 6-8 mm wide. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Anthelmintic, antiperiodic, astringent, febrifuge. The leaves are emmenagogue and laxative. They are applied externally to burns. The root is purgative. Anti-cancer (Ogunwande et al., 2010) | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Roots: furanoditerpenoids 3alpha-hydroxyphanginin H 3beta-acetoxyphanginin H 7alpha-acetoxyphanginin H 7beta-hydroxyphanginin H 4-epi-3alpha-hydroxycaesalpinilinn 4-epi-3beta-acetoxycaesalpinilinn 20-acetoxytaepeenin D tomocin E spathulenol 4,5-epoxy-8(14)-caryophyllene squalene Lupeol trans-resveratrol Quercetin astragalin stigmasterol |
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| Reference : | ~ Omolola Temitope Fatokun, Tosin Ejiro Wojuola, Kevwe Benefit Esievo and Oluyemisi Folashade Kunle; "Medicinal plants used in the management of Asthma: A review"; EJPMR (2016); 3(7): 82-92 PMID : ~ Kuldip S. Dogra, Sandeep Chauhan and Jeewan S. Jalal; "Assessment of Indian medicinal plants for the treatment of asthma"; Journal of Medicinal Plants Research (2015); 9(32): 851-862 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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