MPdb: Melghat Plant Data Bank
MT055 : Lagerstroemia parviflora Roxb. |
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| Melghat's Flora's Serial No. : | 199 |
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| Plant Location in Melghat : | In Belkund, Dolar, Koktu, Jarida, Chunkali, Butida, Marida | |||||||||||||
| Plant Category : | Tree | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Current Status : | - | |||||||||||||
| Plant Family : | Lythraceae | |||||||||||||
| Plant Common Name : | Lendia,K-Chekre, Small Flowered Crape Myrtle • Assamese: Sida, Dhauli • Garo: Bolsidai, Sidai, Bol sidai • Hindi: Dhaura, Lendia, Bakli, Sidi • Kannada: Chanangi, Ventaku, Bhutara • Khasi: Dieng lang sing • Malayalam: Ventekku, Cheemangi • Marathi: Lende, Bondga, Bondara • Nepali: Bot Dhaiyanro • Oriya: Solokha • Tamil: Chenangi, Chinnanchi, Kaccaikkattai, • Telugu: Chinangi, Chennangi | |||||||||||||
| Synonym : | Fatioa napaulensis DC. Lagerstroemia fatioa Bl. Lagerstroemia lanceolata Wight & Arn. Lagerstroemia parvifolia subsp. napaulensis (DC.) Koehne. Murtughas parviflora Kuntze. |
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| Description : | Deciduous trees, to 15 m high; bark dark brown or greyish-black, vertically furrrowed, exfoliating in long, thin flakes; blaze dull yellow. Leaves simple, opposite; stipules intrapetiolar, deciduous; petiole to 5 mm long, slender, glabrous; lamina 3.5-7.5 x 2-3 cm, elliptic, obovate-elliptic or oblong, base round or acute, apex acute, acuminate or obtuse-retuse, margin entire, glabrous or shortly pubescent beneath, coriaceous; lateral nerves 6-8 pairs, pinnate, slender, prominent; intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, 2 mm across, white, fragrant, in lax axillary panicles; calyx tube 7 mm, campanulate, with a ring inside, smooth with out; lobes 6, to 3 mm, appressed to the capsule in fruit; petals 6, to 6 mm, ovate-suborbicular; claw 4 mm; stamens many, inserted near the base of the calyx tube, exserted; filaments to 1 cm; anthers 0.5 mm; ovary 2.5 mm, half inferior, sessile, glabrous, 4-6-celled, ovules many; style to 1 cm, curved; stigma capitate. Fruit a capsule, 3 x 1.5 cm, 3-4 valved, ovoid, brown; seeds many; wing terminal with a thick curved back. Flowering: April-June. | |||||||||||||
| Curated Medicinal Use / Activity : | old leaves and mature fruit are used in traditional medicine for reducing glucose in blood. | |||||||||||||
| Plant's Phytochemicals : | corosolic acid lager-stroemin flosin B reginin A |
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| Reference : | ~ Dhore MA and Joshi PA; "Flora of Melghat Tiger Reserve"; Directorate, Project Tiger, Melghat (1988); PMID : ~ S.D. Jagtap, S.S. Deokule and S.V. Bhosle; "Some unique ethnomedicinal uses of plants used by the Korku tribe of Amravati district of Maharashtra, India"; Journal of Ethnopharmacology (2006); 107: 463-469 PMID : |
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