MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT025 : Lannea coromandelica (Houtt.) Merr. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 94 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Anacardiaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Moin, G- Mangi, Indian Ash Tree, Moya, Wodier • Hindi: Mohin • Manipuri: Aaman • Marathi: moi, shemat, shimati, shinti • Tamil: Oti • Malayalam: Otiyan-maram • Telugu: Ajasrngi • Kannada: Godda, gumpina, kuratige, Udimara • Bengali: Jiola • Oriya: Indramai, Moi • Konkani: Moi • Coorgi: Goddana-mara • Assamese: Jia • Gujarati: Mavedi • Sanskrit: Jhingini | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Calesiam grande (Dennst.) Kuntze. Calsiama malabarica Rafin. Dialium coromandelicum Houtt. Haberlia grandis Dennst. Lannea grandis (Dennst.) Engl. Lannea wodier (Roxb.) Adel. Odina gummifera Bl., nom. illeg. Odina pinnata Rottl. Odina wodier Roxb. Rhus odina Buch.-Ham. ex Wall. Spondias wirtgenii Hassk. Tapiria wodier (Roxb.) March. Wirtgenia octandra Jungh. |
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| Description : | Deciduous trees, to 25 m high, bark surface grey to dark brown, rough, exfoliating in small irregular flakes, fibrous; blaze crimson red or deep pink; exudation gummy, red; young parts stellate-rusty tomentose. Leaves imparipinnate, alternate, clustered at the end of branchlets, estipulate; rachis 21-27 cm, stout, swollen at base, stellate-hairy pubescent when young; leaflets 7-11, opposite; petiolule 3-5 mm, slender, pubescent; lamina 5-12 x 3-8 cm, oblong, oblong-ovate, oblong-lanceolate or ovate, base oblique, acute or round, apex acuminate, margin entire, lower surface and part of the upper with scattered stellate pubescence, chartaceous; lateral nerves 10-16 pairs, parallel, prominent, puberulent beneath, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers unisexual, yellowish-green; male flowers : in compound racemes, 8 mm across; calyx 4-lobed; lobes ovate, imbricate, persistent; petals 4, lanceolate, reflexed, imbricate; disc annular, 8-lobed; stamens 8, inserted below the disc, filaments unequal, subulate, ovary abortive; female flowers : in simple racemes; petals and sepals as in male flowers; stamens very short and small; anthers sterile; ovary superior, ovule pendulous from near the top of the cell.; styles 4; stigma peltate. Fruit a drupe, 12 mm long, ovoid, red; stone hard; seed compressed. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | bark used for skin diseases; . Its fruits are crushed and mixed with water and is used as fish poison. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | Beta-Sitosterol Physcion Physcion anthranol-B Leucocyanidin Ellagic acid Quercitin-3-arabinoside Iso-quercitin Quercetin Leucodelphinidin Morin Kaempferol gallic acid epigallocatechin-3-gallate catechin chlorogenic acid caffeic acid |
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| Reference : | ~ Chellaiah Muthu, Muniappan Ayyanar, Nagappan Raja and Savarimuthu Ignacimuthu; "Medicinal plants used by traditional healers in Kancheepuram District of Tamil Nadu, India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2006); 2(43): 1-10 PMID : ~ 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 : ~ J. Lenin Bapuji and S. Venkat Ratnam; "Traditional Uses of Some Medicinal Plants by tribals of Gangaraju Madugula Mandal of Visakhapatnam District, Andhra Pradesh"; Ethnobotanical Leaflets (2009); 13: 388-98 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 : |
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