MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT045 : Albizia procera (Roxb.) Benth. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 184 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | At higher elevations like Chikhaldara and Vairat Plateaux | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Fabaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Kinhi, White siris, Tall albizia • Hindi: Safed siris • Urdu: Sarapatri sirsi • Assamese: Tantari-asing • Telugu: Tella chinduga • Kannada: Belari • Malayalam: Jalavaka • Marathi: Kinhai • Nepali: Seto Siris, Karaahi | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Acacia elata Voigt. Acacia procera (Roxb.)Willd. Acacia procera var. elata (Roxb.)Baker. Acacia procera var. roxburghiana E.Fourn. Albizia procera var. elata (Roxb.)Baker. Albizia procera var. roxburghiana E.Fourn. Feuilleea procera (Roxb.)Kuntze. Lignum murinum-majus Rumph. Mimosa coriaria Blanco. Mimosa elata Roxb. Mimosa procera Roxb. |
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| Description : | Deciduous trees; to 30 m high; bark 10-15 mm, thick, surface greenish-yellow, smooth, exfoliation small, irregular; blaze red; branchlets brownish to blackish or yellowish, terete, 3-13 mm thick, silky pubescent. Leaves bipinnate, alternate, stipulate; stipule free, lateral; rachis 13-30 cm long, slender, pulvinate, puberulous, with a prominent gland near its base; pinnae 2-5 (6) pairs, 9.7-27 cm long, slender, evenly pinnate, opposite, puberulous; leaflets 4-20, opposite, even pinnate, estipellate, petiolule 2-3 mm long; lamina 2.5-5 x 1.8-3 cm, obliquely oblong, obliquely ovate or obliquely oblong-ovate, base unequal, round on the upper side of the midrib and acute on the lower side, apex round or subacute, margin entire, glabrous above, white pilose beneath, with a gland between terminal pairs of leaflets, subcoriaceous, midrib subcentral, slightly towards the distal margin; lateral nerves 6-10 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent, intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers bisexual, yellowish-white, in globose heads, forming axillary or terminal panicles; calyx tube narrowly obconic, 2.5-3 x 1.5-2 mm, glabrous, teeth triangular; corolla 5-7 mm long, 5-lobed; lobes oblong-elliptic, puberulous towards apex; stamens many, 8-12 mm long, monadelphous at base, tube longer than the corolla tube; ovary oblong, stipitate, glabrous, style filiform; stigma terminal. Fruit a pod 10-20 x 1.8-2.5 cm, strap-shaped, flat, thin walled, rostrate at apex, glabrous, often glossy, faintly reticulately veined, black, brown or yellow when dry, stalk very short; seeds 5-12, ovate-elliptic, compressed, greenish-brown. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | A decoction of the bark is given for the treatment of rheumatism and haemorrhage. It is also considered useful in treating problems of pregnancy and for stomach-ache.The leaves are poulticed onto ulcers. All parts of the plant are reported to show anti-cancer activity. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | a-spinasterol hentriacontane hexacosanol biochanin A formononetin genistein diadzein demethylmedicarpin Beta-sitosterol proceric acid procerogenin A mechaerinic acid proceric acids proceranin A oleanolic acid a-spinasterol oleanolic acid Proceraosides A Proceraosides B Proceraosides C Proceraosides D |
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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 : |
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