MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT053 : Syzygium heyneanum (Duthie) Wall. ex Gamble |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 195 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In Chikhaldara and Semadoh range | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | UNCOMMON | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Myrtaceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Jamun, K-Gambu, Kath Jamun • Hindi: Kathjamun • Marathi: Pan Jambhul • Telugu: Chinna Neredu • Kannada: Pannerale, Simpi nerale | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Eugenia heyneana. Eugenia heyneana Duthie. Eugenia salicifolia Wt. |
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| Description : | Small trees up to 10 m tall. Bark rough, greyish brown, irregularly flaky; blaze reddish brown. Young branchlets quadrangular, glabrous. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate; petiole up to 1 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, glabrous; lamina up to 10 x 2.5 cm, narrow oblong, oblong-lanceolate, apex obtuse or acute with blunt tip, base attenuate, margin entire, pellucid gland dotted, coriaceous, shining above, glabrous beneath; midrib slightly canaliculate above; intramarginal nerve present; secondary nerves many, parallel, slender; tertiary nerves admedialy ramified. Inflorescence cymes, usually lateral, from the scars of fallen leaves, rarely axillary, flowers white, sessile or shortly pediceled. Berry, oblong-ellipsoid, ca. 1 cm long, crowned by calyx lobes. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | Bark paste mixed with whey is given in diarrhoea and dysentery twice a day for two days. Bark juice mixed with rice water is given once a day for 21 days for the treatment of leucorrhoea. | |||||||||||||
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| Reference : | ~ Chandra Prakash Kala; "Aboriginal uses and management of ethnobotanical species in deciduous forests of Chhattisgarh state in India"; Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine (2009); 5(20): 1-9 PMID : ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ RLS Sikarwar, Bharat Pathak & Anil Jaiswal; "Some unique ethnomedicinal perceptions of tribal communities of Chitrakoot, Madhya Pradesh"; Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge (2008); 7(4): 613-617 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 : ~ Patil, HM and Bhaskar, VV; "Medicinal uses of plnats by tribal medicine men of Nandurbar district in Maharashtra"; Natural Product Radiance (2006); 5(2): 125-130 PMID : |
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