MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MS127 : Tamarix dioca Roxb. Ex. Roth |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | in the river beds of Sipna and Tapi | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Shrubs | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | TAMARICACEAE | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Gaz, Jhau | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Tamarix dioica* Roxb. Tamarix longe-pedunculata Blatt. & Hallb. |
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| Description : | Shrub or under-sized tree with reddish bark, entirely glabrous, leaves vaginate, abruptly acuminate, 1.5-3 mm long, with a broad whitish margin. Plants dioecious. Recemes aestival, simple or loosely compound male racemes, 3-8 cm long, 7-8 mm broad, compact, female raceme as long as the male raceme or somewhat longer, 3-5 mm broad. Flowers purple or purplish pink, subsessile. Bracts semiamplexicaul, triangular, acuminate, 2.5-3 mm long, 1 mm broad. Sepals 5, ovate to broadly ovate or somewhat orbicular, c. 2 mm long, c. 1.5 mm broad, almost entire, obtuse. Petals 5, free, obovate, 2.5 mm long, 1-1.25 mm broad, entire, obtuse. Stamens 5, filaments filiform, 1.75-2 mm long, inserted in between the notches of the disc (mesodiscine disc), notches almost entire to slightly emarginate, anthers obtuse, ± sagittate; stamens abortive in the female flowers. Styles 3 as long as the ovary or slightly shorter, exserted, ovary triquetrous 1-1.5 mm long, abortive or absent in male flowers. Fl. Per.: April-November. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | colds; conjunctivitis; | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | apigenin Diosmetin galactitol Gardenin Isorhamnetin Nevadensin Tamarixetin |
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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
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