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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MS118 : Carissa carandas

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Gentianales
Family : Apocynaceae - Dogbane family
Genus : Carissa L. - carissa
Species : Carissa carandas L. - karanda
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Shrubs  
Plant's Current Status :  
Plant Family : APOCYNACEAE  
 
Plant Common Name : Karanda • Hindi: Karonda • Malayalam: Karakka • Telugu: Peddakalavi • Marathi: karvand • Tamil: Kalakkai
 
Synonym : Arduina carandae Baill.
Arduina carandas (L.) Baill.
Carissa salicina Lam.
Echites spinosus Burm.f.
Jasminonerium carandas (L.) Kuntze
Jasminonerium salicinum (Lam.) Kuntze
Description : Armed shrubs, latex milky, dichotomously branched, spines forked at apex, 4.5 cm. Leaves 6 x 3.5 cm, elliptic-oblong, apex obtuse or emarginate, subcoriaceous; petiole to 0.5 cm. Cymes axillary and terminal, corymbose, puberulus; flowers white; calyx 5-lobed, 2.5 mm ,ovate, , aristate; corolla hypocrateriform, tube 2 cm, pubescent, twisted, 7 x 3 mm, ovate, pubescent; stamens 2.5 mm, obtuse, mucronate, sessile; ovary 1 mm, stigma fusiform, twisted. Berry 2.5 cm across, black when ripe.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The fruits are astringent, antiscorbutic and also used as a remedy for biliousness. A leaf decoction is used against fever, Diarrhea, and earache. The roots serve as a stomachic, vermifuge and remedy for itches.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : Ursolic acid
Sasanquol
palmitic acid
oleic acid
Odoroside H
Octadecanoate
MYRCENE
malonic acid
GERANYL ACETATE
Digitalose
(-)-camphene
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 :

~ 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 :