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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MS121 : Gardenia gummifera L.f.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. :  
Class : Magnoliopsida - Dicotyledons
Order : Gentianales
Family : Rubiaceae
Genus : Gardenia
Species : Gardenia gummifera L.f.
Plant Location in Melghat :  
Plant Category : Shrubs  
Plant's Current Status : Lower Risk/Least Concern  
Plant Family : RUBIACEAE  
 
Plant Common Name : Gummy Gardenia, Cambi gum tree • Gujarati: Dikamalli • Hindi: Dekamali • Kannada: Kad Bikke • Malayalam: Kambimaram • Marathi: Dikemali • Sanskrit: Nadihingu • Tamil: Sirukkambil • Telugu: Chittamali
 
Synonym : Gardenia arborea Roxb.
Gardenia inermis F.Dietr.
Genipa arborea (Roxb.) Baill.
Genipa gummifera (L.f.) Baill.
Description : Small trees, to 8 m high, bark 0.64 cm, greyish-brown, smooth; blaze dull yellow; exudation bright yellow resinous; branches and branchlets virgate, young parts pubescent. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; stipules intrapetiolar, connate; petiole 1-4 mm, stout, glabrous; lamina 4-8 x 1.5-4 cm, ovate, obovate or obovate-oblong, base obtuse, round or subcordate, apex acute or obtuse, margin entire, puberulent when young, glabrous when mature, shiny, coriaceous; lateral nerves 8-20 pairs, parallel, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent; domatia present. Flowers bisexual, white turns to yellow, axillary, solitary or in lax cymes; calyx 4.5 mm, truncate, lobes 5, 1.5 mm, triangular, puberulous without, acute; corolla 4.5 cm across, cylindrical, lobes 5, 2.5 x 1.5 cm, puberulous without, obovate, obtuse; stamens 5, 1 cm long, included; ovary 6 x 3.5 mm, inferior, 1-celled, 5-gonous, ovules many; style 2.5 cm; stigma 5 angled, fusiform. Fruit a berry, 4 x 3 cm, ellipsoid or oblong; seeds rugose.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The gum-resin obtained from the leaf buds is used in the treatment of cutaneous diseases.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : apigenin
Gardenin
Isoscutellarein
Nevadensin
Wogonin
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 :