MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS053 : Woodfordia fruticosa (L.) Kurz |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 202 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In Undergrowth of forests, along stream banks, on vertically cut rocky faces of slopes frequent throughout | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | IUCN Red List Category - Lower Risk/Least Concern | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Lythraceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Dhayati, K-Dhin,Khinni G-Pitte, Surpudi, Fire Flame Bush, Red Bell Bush • Hindi: Dhawai • Marathi: Dowari • Tamil: Velakkai • Malayalam: Tatiripuspi • Telugu: Jargi seringi, Godari • Kannada: Tamrapuspi • Oriya: Dhobo • Konkani: Dhauri • Urdu: Jetiko • Gujarati: Dhawani • Sanskrit: Parvati, Bahupuspika • Nepali: Ras Dhayenro | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Acistoma coccineum Zipp. ex Span. Grislea micropetala Hochst. & Steud. Grislea punctata Buch.-Ham. ex Sm. Grislea tomentosa Roxb. Lythrum fruticosum L. Lythrum hunteri DC. Lythrum punctatum Span. Woodfordia floribunda Salisb. Woodfordia tomentosa (Roxb.) Bedd. |
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| Description : | Deciduous shrubs to 3 m tall with spreading stems. Leaves subsessile, 4-11 x 2-4 cm, ovate-lanceolate or lanceolate, subcoriaceous, whitish velvety tomentose and finely orangish- or black-punctate beneath. Flowers crimson, slightly zygomorphic, in 2-16-flowered axillary cymes; pedicels to 1 cm long. Calyx tube 1-1.5 cm long, tubular; lobes 6, short, more or less triangular, alternating with small callous appendages. Petals 6, red, 3-4 mm long, lanceolate-acuminate. Stamens 12, inserted near the bottom of the calyx tube, 0.5-1.5 cm long. Ovary 4-6 mm long, oblong, 2-celled; ovules many; style 0.7-1.5 cm long. Capsule 0.6-1 x 0.25-0.4 cm, ellipsoid, included in the calyx. Seeds numerous, trigonous-ovoid. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The flowers are astringent. They are used in the treatment of dysentery, traditionally being beaten up with honey into a kind of confection. They are also thought to be of use in treating menorrhagia. The flowers are used externally as an astringent. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Beta-sitosterol linoleic acid oleic acid palmitic acid stearic acid octacosanol chrysophanol-8-O-Beta-D-glucopyranoside cyanidin-3,5-diglucoside hecogenin inositol Woodfordins A Woodfordins B Woodfordins C llagic acid myricetin-3-galactoside pelargonidin-3,5-diglucoside lawsone betulin betulinic acid lupeol oleanolic acid ursolic acid |
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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 : ~ J. Lenin Bapuji and S. Venkat Ratnam; "Traditional Uses of Some Medicinal Plants by tribals of Gangaraju Madugula Mandal of Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh"; Ethnobotanical Leaflets (2009); 13: 388-98 PMID : ~ 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 : |
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