MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS084 : Nyctanthes arbor-tristis L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 405 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Western bordering belt of Tiger reserve from Akot and Harisal ranges | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Oleaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Parijatak, K- Karsali, Har singar, Coral Jasmine, Tree of Sorrow, Queen of the night • Bengali: Shefali, Shiuli, Parijat • Hindi: Har singar, Shefali, Parijat • Manipuri: Singarei • Tamil: Pavizhamalli • Malayalam: Paarijatam • Sanskrit: Parijat | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Bruschia macrocarpa Bertol. Nyctanthes dentata Blume. Nyctanthes tristis Salisb., nom. superfl. Parilium arbor-tristis (L.) Gaertn. Scabrita scabra L. Scabrita triflora L. |
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| Description : | A deciduous shrub or small tree, some times found in forest fringe as escape. Branchlets pubescent, 4-angled. Leaves ovate, shortly acuminate, distantly toothed or entire, coriaceous, scabrid, base rounded, cuneate or acute. Flowers white, sweet scented, sessile, 3-7 together on hairy quadrangular peduncles arranged in cymose panicles. Calyx tube funnel shaped, 4-5 toothed; corolla tube cylindrical, orange red, lobes white, 5-8, contorted in bud. Anthers subsesile near the mouth of the corolla tube. Ovary two celled, style cylindric,bifid. Fruit is a compressed orbicular capsule. It is a very common ornamental species planted in many places for its fragrant flower. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The bitter leaves are useful as a cholagogue, laxative, diaphoretic and diuretic. An extract is given to children for the expulsion of roundworms and threadworms. An anti-inflammatory activity of the leaves has been recorded recently. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | mannitol emmenagogue alpha-amyrin beta-sitosterol benzoic acid kaempferol cyclohexylethanoid rengyolone arborside C 6b-hydroxyloganin nyctanthoside |
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| Reference : | ~ Santosh Kumar Singh, Jay Ram Patel, Prashant Kumar Dubey and Sonia Thakur; "A review on anti-asthmatic activity of traditional medicinal plants"; IJPSR (2014); 5(10): 4109-4116 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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