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Botanical Name Plant's Common Name Plant Family

MT031 : Dalbergia lanceolaria L.f.

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Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : 124  
Class : Equisetopsida
Order : Fabales
Family : Fabaceae / Leguminosae - Pea family
Genus : Dalbergia
Species : Dalbergia lanceolaria paniculata (Roxb.)Thoth.
Plant Location in Melghat : -  
Plant Category : Tree  
Plant's Current Status : -  
Plant Family : Fabaceae  
 
Plant Common Name : Dhobin,K-Phassi,G-Padri, bastard rose wood • Assamese: meda-luwa, mouhit • Bengali: chakemdia • Coorgi: hasarugoni, shweta beete • Gujarati: tantoshi • Hindi: hardi, takoli • Kannada: bili beete • Kolami: piri • Malayalam: kannan vaaka, velliitti • Marathi: dondus. phanshi • Mundari: birmunga, keadcadlomdaru • Oriya: dodilo • Rajasthani: barbat, passi • Sanskrit: goraksha • Santal: chapot siris • Tamil: erikai, kattuppachalai • Telugu: kondapachari, tellavirugudu • Urdu: dandous
 
Synonym : Amerimnon lanceolarium (L.f.) Kuntze
Dalbergia arborea B.Heyne
Dalbergia frondosa DC.
Dalbergia lanceolaria subsp. lanceolaria.
Description : Large trees. Leaves 15-25 cm long; leaflets 13 or 15, to 4 x 2 cm, oblong-elliptic, apex emarginate, slightly coriaceous; petiole to 2 cm; petiolule 3-5 mm, stipules small, deciduous. Panicles terminal and axillary, 5-15 cm long. Pod 8 x 2 cm, oblong-lanceolate, glabrous, stipitate, coriaceous. acute at both ends; seeds 1-3. A tall handsome deciduous tree with drooping branches. Leaves imparipinnate, 7.5-18 cm long; leaflets 2-3.8 cm long, elliptic or oblong, obtuse. Flowers small, in copious axillary and terminal panicles. Pods 3.8-5 cm long, thin flexible. Bark pale grey with greenish yellow tinge. Leaf compound, 17 leaflets. Flower lilac. Fruit thin, flat pod, tapering ends.
 
Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : The bark is used ad astringent, analgesic and anti-Diarrheal. Seeds possesses good anti-inflammatory properties. Seed oil is used in rheumatism. The bark is used in dyspepsia.
 
Plant's Phytochemicals : lanceolarin
alpha-Baptigenin
Reference : ~ 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 :