MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT022 : Ziziphus rugosa Lam. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 83 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | Chikhaldara, Vairat, Makhala | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
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| Plant Family : | Rahamnaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Sakhari,K-Churni, Wild Jujube, wrinkled jujube • Hindi: Churna, Suran • Marathi: toran, turan • Tamil: totari • Malayalam: thodali, tutari • Telugu: gottichettu • Kannada: belahadu, kanika, kottamullu, mulluhannu | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Rhamnus glabrata Heyne. Ziziphus buraea Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. Ziziphus glabra Roxb. Ziziphus horsfieldii Miq. Ziziphus latifolia Roxb. Ziziphus obliqua Heyne ex Roth. Ziziphus paniculata Roth. Ziziphus roxburghiana Voigt. Ziziphus tomentosa Roxb. |
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| Description : | Scandent shrubs, thorns, recurved. Leaves 9-12 x 4-7 cm, ovate-orbicular, apex acute, base unequally cordate, fulvous-tomentose beneath, coriaceous, crenulate; petiole to 1 cm long. Flowers 6-20 together; subsessile, 5 mm across; sepals densely tomentose outside; disk flat, glabrous; ovary densely tomentose, 2-celled; styles 2, curved. Drupe to 1.3 cm, globose, white, glabrous. Leaves, 5-12.5x4-6 cm, are broadly elliptic, short-tippes, denticulate, base oblique, wrinkled, petiole 0.8-1.5 cm long, densely velvet-hairy. Inflorescence of pedunculate cymes, densely pubescent, peduncle c.5 mm long. Pedicel, to 4 mm long. Calyx puberulous inside 1.5-2 mm long, with ovate acute lobes. Petals absent. Disc 5-lobed, styles 2, connate below the middle. Fruit c. 5-8 mm in diameter, globose or pyriform, white when ripe. Flowering: December-January. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | A paste made from the bark is applied as a poultice on swollen gums and to toothaches. The flowers, combined with an equal quantity of the petioles of betel leaves and half as much lime is used to make a pill that is used in the treatment of menorrhagia. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Rugosanine-A betulic acid oleanolic acid alphitolic acid 2a-hydroxy ursolic acid vanillic acid betulin betulinic acid kaempferol quercetin myricetin apigenin apigenin-7-O-glucoside N-formyl cyclopeptide |
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : |
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