MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS114 : Caesalpinia bonduc (L.)Roxb. |
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| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | CAESALPINIOIDEAE | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Yellow Nicker, Gray nicker, nicker seed, bonduc nut, Fever nut, nicker bean • Hindi: Kantkarej, Kantikaranja, Kuberakshi • Marathi: Sagarlata • Tamil: Kalichchikkai • Malayalam: Kalanchi • Telugu: Gachchakaya • Kannada: Gajikekayi • Sanskrit: Latakaranjah, Kuberakshi, Kantakikaranjah | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Bonduc minus Medik. Caesalpinia bonducella (L.)Fleming Caesalpinia crista L., p.p.A Caesalpinia cristata Prowazek Caesalpinia grisebachiana Kuntze Caesalpinia sepiaria Sensu auct. Caesalpinia sogerensis Baker f. Guilandina bonduc Griseb. Guilandina bonducella L. Guilandina crista (L.)Small Guilandina gemina Lour. Guillandina bonduc L. Guillandina bonducella (L.)Fleming |
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| Description : | Scandent shrubs; stems armed with recurved prickles. Leaves bipinnate, to 50 cm long; pinnae 4-5 pairs; leaflets 5-8 pairs per pinna, 2-5 x 0.8-2.2 cm, ovate or elliptic-oblong, base rounded, apex obtuse, mucronate; petiole to 15 cm long; stipules 0.8-1.7 cm long, foliaceous, lobed or pinnate. Racemes supra-axillary or terminal, many-flowered, to 15 cm long. Flowers c.1.5 cm across; pedicels 2-5 mm long; bracts 6-8 x 1-2 mm, lanceolate, caducous. Calyx lobes 5, separate almost to the base, 5-8 mm long, oblong or obovate, pubescent. Petals yellow as long as the sepals, oblanceolate, reflexed; upper one smaller. Stamens 10; filaments villous. Ovules 2. Pods 4.5-9 x3.5-4.5 cm, elliptic, turgid, beaked, covered with straight, puberulent spines. Seeds 1 or 2, 1-1.5 cm across, subglobose, greyish-white. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | The seeds are anti-bacterial, anti-cancer, anti-fungal, anti-viral, febrifuge, hypocholesterolemic, hypoglycaemic, mildly purgative, stomachic and tonic. The seeds are used to soothe stomach disorders. The seed oil is used to treat rheumatism. The leaves are an ingredient of a famous cough formula. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Caesalpinine A alpha-caesalpin bonducellin L-citrulline bonducine Bonducin |
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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
(2018 - 2019); Book PMID : ~ Kavishankar, G.B; Lakshmidevi, N.; Murthy, S.M.; Prakash, H.S. and Niranjana, S.R.; "Diabetes and medicinal plants-A review"; Int J Pharm Biomed Sci (2011); 2(3): 65-80 PMID : |
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