MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT037 : Bauhinia purpurea L. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 166 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | Common | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Fabaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Kachnar,K-Koilari, Butterfly tree, Pink butterfly tree, Purple bauhinia, Purple butterfly tree, Purple orchid tree • Hindi: Kaniar • Tamil: Nilattiruvatti • Bengali: Koiral • Assamese: Og-yok • Marathi: Rakta kanchan • Kannada: Devakanchan, Basavana Paada • Tangkhul: Haochokwon | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Bauhinia castrata Blanco. Bauhinia coromandeliana DC. Bauhinia platyphylla Span. Bauhinia purpurea var. corneri De Wit. Bauhinia purpurea var. violacea De Wit. Bauhinia rosea Corner. Bauhinia triandra Roxb. Bauhinia violacea Corner. Caspareopsis purpurea (L.)Pittier. Phanera purpurea (L.)Benth. |
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| Description : | Small trees with warty branchlets. Leaflets connate about half way, lobed, sometimes lobes overlapping, thin coriaceous, base subcordate, margin entire.Flowers in axillary or terminal recemes or paniculate. Calyx-tube apex 2-cleft. Petals rose to pink, obovate, narrow at base, obtuse. Stamens 3-5. Pods oblong, compressed, many seeded. Bark smooth and fibrous, Leaves deeply divided, similar to a cow's foot. Flowers pink, fragrant. Fruit a flat bean like,woody, coils after splitting open. Flowering: peak in September. Fruiting: Throughout the year | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Leaf vegetable; The root is carminative. The flowers are laxative. The bark, roots and flowers, when mixed with rice-water, are used in poultice form as a maturant. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | bioflavonoid bibenzyls dibenzoxepins lutein beta-sitosterol isoquercitin astragalin |
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| 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 : ~ Shubhangi Pawar and D A Patil; "Observations on folkloric medicinal plants of Jalgaon district, Maharashtra"; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (2004); 3(4): 437-442 PMID : ~ Rajendra Prasad Bharti, Abhilasha shrivastava, Jagjeevan Ram Choudhary, Asha Tiwari and N. K. Soni; "Ethno Medicinal Plants used by Tribal Communities in Vindhya region of Rewa and Sidhi District of Madhya Pradesh, India"; IOSR Journal of Pharmacy and Biological Sciences (2013); 8(6): 23-28 PMID : |
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