MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT014 : Ailanthus excelsa Roxb. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 72 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Mostly planted on village sites | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Simaroubaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Maharukh, Adu, Ghoda Neem, Ghoda Karanj, Indian Tree of Heaven, Coramandel ailanto • Hindi: Mahanimb, Maharukh • Marathi: Marukh, Mahrukh, mahanimb • Tamil: Agal, Perumaram, perumaruntu • Malayalam: Mattipongilyam, Peru, Perumaram • Telugu: pedda, peddamandu, peddamanu • Kannada: Bende, dodabevu, dodda • Oriya: mundayigatch • Sanskrit: aralu, araluka, araluvrksa | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Pongelion excelsum (Roxb.) Pierre. Pongelion wighti Van Tiegh. |
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| Description : | Trees, to 25 m high, bark light greyish-brown, fibrous or glandular, rough. Leaves pari or imparipinnate, alternate, estipulate; rachis 20-80 cm long, stout, swollen at base, pubescent; leaflets 13-29, subopposite; petiolule 20-50 mm long, slender, pubescent; lamina 9-15 x 4-6 cm, very variable in shape, mostly ovate-lanceolate, base unequal or truncate, apex acute or acuminate, margin irregularly and coarsely dentate, membranous, pubescent; lateral nerves 12-20 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers polygamous, 8 mm across, yellowish, in subterminal panicles, emits foetid smell; male flowers: pedicels long, slender; sepals 5, ovate, pubescent; petals 5, ovate-lanceolate, reflexed; disc 10 lobed; stamens 10, inserted at the base disc; filaments shorter than anthers; anthers oblong; pistillode rudimentary; bisexual flowers: sepals, petals and disc as in male flowers; stamens 2 or 3; ovary 2-5, partite, superior, sparsely hairy, ovule 1 in each cell; style free or connate; stigmas curling. Fruit a samara, 5 x 1.3 cm, prominently veined, oblong, copper red, twisted at base. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Grahi – absorbent, useful in Diarrhea, IBS Deepana – improves digestion strength Indicated in – Krumi – worm infestation Kushta – skin diseases Atisara – Diarrhea, dysentery; Ayurvedic medicines with Aralu as ingredient: Dadimavaleha – an effective Ayurvedic medicine for Diarrhea. Brihat Gangadhara Churna – Herbal powder, used for Diarrhea, low digestion strength etc. Bark used in India as a powerful fever-cure and tonic. Leaves and bark in good repute as a tonic after labor, and the juice of the leaves and fresh bark employed by the Konkans as a remedy for after-pains. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Malanthine Beta-sitosterol Vitexin Excelsin Glaucarubol Quassinoids 1,2,3,4-dihydro Excelsin 3 Glaucarubine Ailanthinone Glaucarubinone Glaucarubolone |
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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 : ~ Kuldip S. Dogra, Sandeep Chauhan and Jeewan S. Jalal; "Assessment of Indian medicinal plants for the treatment of asthma"; Journal of Medicinal Plants Research (2015); 9(32): 851-862 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 : ~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID : |
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